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Review from philkeaggy.com:
Dove award winning “Instrumental Album of the Year”. The songs really capture Phil’s Celtic influence. This CD is deeply reflective and moving. Several songs feature orchestration, adding to the warmth of this album. Highly recommended!
Tracklist:
1. In The Light Of Common Day
2. County Down
3. Symphonic Dance
4. Addison's Walk
5. I Feel The Wind Of God Today
6. Fare Thee Well
7. Fragile Forest
8. Brother Jack
9. As Warm As Tears
10. A Place Of Springs
11. In The Light Of Common Day (Reprise)
12. When Night Falls
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Review:
For decades, Leo Kottke would inspire generations of fingerpicking acoustic guitarists (and help pave the way for New Age and contemporary instrumental music), but this 1969 album is the one that started it all. Kottke's brilliant debut was released, fittingly, on John Fahey's Takoma label. Showing the influence of Fahey himself (and Takoma labelmate Robbie Basho), Kottke performs impossibly difficult solo compositions that meld blues, bluegrass, and jazz techniques. Whether surefooted and quick ("The Driving of the Year Nail," "Jack Fig," "The Fisherman") or slow and reflective ("Ojo," "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"), Kottke's instrumental work is simply awe-inspiring. He'd forge an entire career out of this music and eventually incorporate singing onto his albums, but this gem is Kottke at his very best. Essential. --Jason Verlinde
Tracklist:
1. The Driving Of The Year Nail 1:54
2. The Last Of The Arkansas Greyhounds 3:15
3. Ojo 2:12
4. Crow River Waltz 3:17
5. The Sailor's Grave On The Prairie 2:30
6. Vaseline Machine Gun 3:08
7. Jack Fig 2:10
8. Watermelon 3:07
9. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring 2:21
10. The Fisherman 2:29
11. The Tennessee Toad 2:37
12. Busted Bicycle 2:45
13. The Brain Of The Purple Mountain 2:07
14. Coolidge Rising
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Review:
It's been called the album that opened "a new chapter on steel-string guitar playing," and it's unquestionably one of the most groundbreaking albums in acoustic guitar history. Though Hedges had released the excellent Breakfast in the Field on Windham Hill in 1981, the Grammy-nominated Boundaries came as an unexpected revelation in 1985. On stirring, complex compositions like "Rickover's Dream," "Spare Change," and a deft instrumental reading of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush," Hedges unleashed a stunning new vocabulary of finger-tapping, hammering, and harmonic slaps--processed with electronics and reverb--that still resounds today in the playing of artists from Ani Di Franco to Preston Reed. Steeped both in classical harmony and the fingerstyle guitar tradition of Leo Kottke, Martin Carthy, and John Renbourn, Boundaries remains the late composer-guitarist's seminal work, and its innovations in technique, tuning, tone, and intensity remain key texts in modern acoustic circles. James Rotondi
Tracklist:
1. Aerial Boundaries
2. Bensusan
3. Rickover's Dream
4. Ragamuffin
5. After the Gold Rush
6. Hot Type
7. Spare Change
8. Menage a Trois
9. The Magic FarmerDownload
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