Michael Hedges - I Carry Your Heart

pretty sure i was AT this show.

Like a comet so blazing, but too soon gone...yet we carry him in OUR hearts.

This is simply one of the best songs ever written. The recorded version on "Taproot" has David Crosby & Graham Nash singing vocals as well. Everytime . . . everytime I hear that song, it makes the hair on my arms stand up. Not many songs do that. I wish I had one tenth the talent he had.

i simply adore the poem and just loved the music
congratulations

Players with a "heavy hand". Michael was a very strong player. Stevie Ray Vaughn, and older guys like John Lee Hooker, all have a heavy, "fat-finger" approach. I am the same way. I like guitars that fight me back when I play them. Notice that even the music like "Two Days Old", which is my second favorite piece by Hedges, is played with a firm, stadium filling sound. Most players that I have heard just don't dive into the guitar like M.H. does. Rootwitch, OMG. So GOOD! Kottke, Fahey, STRONG.

My ideas of what "primitive music" is, is a "mental concept" of music. I agree, labeling music is rediculous. Having said that, people still feel the need to attach "labels". I have been a student, and performer of acoustic guitar instrumentals for over 40 years, and I stand by my statements about the style of Hedges. The 200 plus instrumentals I have written, and the hundreds of instrumental written by others, I play, all require the same kind of "perspective" to perform. Aggressive.

So would you say that this aggressive perspective is what you mean by American Primitive? What do you mean by aggressive?

I believe his music to be "American Primitive", although he is listed under "New Age" a lot.

Actually Hedges's music resists being fit into categories other than "acoustic guitar," and Hedges continually joked about this, calling his genre of music "heavy mental" and "upper primate spike collar guitar," for example. John Fahey and, more recently, John Hasbrouck are prime examples of American Primitive, and these are quite different from Hedges, right?

excelent performance
great playing
great voice
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