My "Ten-In-One" CD is all done

It all went out via The Interwebs today ... graphics files and audio files, whoosh, straight to the manufacturer. It's all done, and a far cry from the sweet little fingerstyle album I thought I was making when I started a year and a half ago. But lordy, when The Muse taps you, you gotta answer. Especially if she taps you with a fricking baseball bat. For much of the making of this record I felt like I was just taking dictation from my own subconscious. Yow. But even if I do say so myself, it all turned out dandy. I'm very pleased with the way it looks and the way it sounds. I just wish I knew what it meant. :-)

"Ten-In-One" is a concept album, ostensibly about a trip to a sideshow and back. The cast includes:

Mike Marshall (David Grisman Darol Anger, Choro Famoso) on mandolin
Sam Bevan (Grisman, Joe Craven, Matt Flinner) on bass
Philip Aaberg (Windham Hill, Eugene Friesen) on accordion
Hank Roberts (Bill Frisell) on cello
Kendrick Freeman (Allison Brown) on drums
Kit Walker (Kundalini Boombox, Airto Moreira) on keys and loops
Heidi Clare (AtAGallop, Reeltime Travelers) on fiddle
Dr. Robby Virus (Project Pimiento) on theremin
Marla Fibish (Three Mile Stone) on mandolin
Rich DePaolo (Ten Sleep) on electric guitar, mixing and mastering
Mike Phelan (Marley's Ghost), Corinne West, Teresa Tudury, Misty Browning and Rachel Tree on vocals.
Nick Weber, my old ringmaster from circus days, is The Voice of The Talker
Walter Strauss produced and plays guitar and sings
I play guitar, lap steel and sing.
There are 8 originals, one trad and 3 covers.

Aren't you glad you asked? And to answer your other question, yes, it's available right now, over at my home-sweet-home page http://www.steviecoyle.com . I expect delivery sometime between the 26th and the 28th of May, and will fire your copy off to you pronto.

I had occasion to use many fabulous guitars on this record, including a strange and wonderful little koa and cedar beast by Howard Klepper, a 1939 Martin D-28, a Thompson T1-C, an Outbound travel guitar, a Collings 0001-A, an Avante baritone and a couple of '30s-era Nationals: a polychrome triolian, and an El Trovador.

Thanks for wading through all this.

S