Michael Hedges

All of his recordings are wonderful from a musical standpoint and very good to excellent from a recording standpoint! My favorite, from a musical standpoint, is Aerial Boundries, though it does have some reverb added that will annoy the purist. Oracle is probably the most natural recording.

I deeply miss him and his visionary talent.

Anyone know how he passed?
I saw him at Ravinia (north of Chicago) 20 years (or so) ago. -A true genius...

If memory serves, he rolled his car off an embankment while driving solo. Speculation was that he nodded off at the wheel.
I read some gripes about the cavernous sound on his recordings. A great musician can make great music and interesting sounds in a tunnel. He was an amazing player and alot of his compositions will last. At the shows I went to he always sounded alot like his recordings (great), and the real special effects behind his sound were his fingers and his brain. Maxcast, you might like Breakfast in the Feild, or Leo Kottke/One Guitar no Vocals.

I saw Michael live around 1990, and he was an amazing one man show. With his double neck guitar, he would pluck the bass, strum or pluck the guitar neck, while thumping the beat with his thumb on the guitar body.

I have not listened to his recording in a while, but Breakfast in the Field stands out in my memory. A very pleasant acoustic guitar recording. But you won't be disappointed by any of his recordings.

Happy listening.