Guitar Fingerstyle 2

Various Artists

• A Narada Collection

TRACKS:
  1.  Swing Shift

          Artie Traum / Laurence

         Juber
  2.  Big Buck

          Don Ross
  3.  Playground

          Al Petteway / Amy White
  4.  Saturn

          Dean Magraw
  5.  RayJoyce!

          Dan Schwartz
  6.  Old Growth

          Stephen Bennett
  7.  Fall Of A Sparrow

          Laurence Juber
  8.  Mna Na Heireann

          William Coulter
  9.  Novella

          Benjamin Woolman
10.  Darn That Dream

          Alex De Grassi
11.  Maestro Pietro

          Peppino D'Agostino
12.  Where The Heart Is

          Muriel Anderson / Phil

          Keaggy
13.  Ricochet Matilda

          Rich Niebaum
14.  Hold On To Forever

          Billy McLaughlin
15.  Gone Fishin'

          Pat Kirtley

A celebration of one of the most versatile and expressive instruments  - the acoustic guitar.  Featuring today's top fingerstyle masters such as Don Ross, Alex de Grassi, Billy McLaughlin, and others, GUITAR FINGERSTYLE 2 is over an hour-long showcase of brilliant technique, melody, and artistry. 

An Acoustic Road Trip

From Laurence Juber's biting accompaniment behind Artie Traum's Swing Shift in this collection's opening track, to the delightful ragtime stylings of Pat Kirtley that close the disc, there are plenty of detours and scenic side streets to explore.  Some of the trips are solo, while others are joint ventures, but they all invite us to come along for the ride.  And as our sonic tour guides, the artists represented here take us to the wonderfully out-of-the-way places we never knew existed, simultaneously filling our senses and firing our imaginations.  Music has that power.  And the guitar, for all its intimacy, immediacy, and intensity, only amplifies that power...I can think of no instrument more engaging than the guitar - and the guitar played as it was always meant to be played:  fingerstyle.

- John August Schroeter
Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine