It includes some fingerpicking stuff and some fuller arrangements.
You can also download all the songs for free at my Bandcamp page. What's cool about Bandcamp is you can also choose to pay for the songs, any amount you want! What a concept.
I recently started a guitar blog riffing on fingerstyle guitar and folk-blues, including profiles of players I think are 'must know' to get where my inspiration comes from.
I have a pick which is punctured with a rubber band running through it, so I can switch seamlessly from fingerstyle to strumming or flatpicking. I perform as a duo with my wife Kim. She sings and plays and acoustic bass, while I play acoustic guitar. I have played electric guitar, but since I filled in playing lead guitar for an acoustic blues group 14 months ago, I have only played acoustic guitar onstage.
We just completed a CD of my songs with Kim singing and playing bass.
Here is an audio of one of the songs from the CD. http://edrhoades.com/renegade.htm
Matt when you write your message there are some symbols across the top of the text box ( eg Bold, Italic , Underline , Strikethrough, LINK , photo ) That Link button will help you with your links. It looks like a link in a chain in the icon bar.
Hope this helps
Jeff
One more time...... I seem to be losing my links after entering them. This is the third attempt.....!
From my bio page:
Guitarist Matt Richards is one of a few contemporary musical artists who effortlessly bridges musical styles while maintaining a unique identity. While many listeners and critics are familiar with his genre-stretching fingerstyle acoustic work, others associate him with straight-ahead jazz, playing both electric and fretless guitars. Though both identities may seem distinct, they definitely belong to this one musician.
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I'll post updates later -- for now let's see if this works.
Recently Bob Dylan was stopped by NJ police while he was out walking on the Jersey shore after his tour bus with Willie Nelson checked into a hotel at 4AM. The young police officers didn't know Bob or his legend, and thought he had walked out of an assisted living facility. They took him to his hotel where he was vouched for. I wrote this song about the incident, the file is a one take 12 string recording. Bill Whitacre 9-23-09
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