Michael Hedges - Breakfast in the Field

1985 Kent State performance. Tuning: C2G2D3D3A3E4. See http://www.nomadland.com/ for information on Hedges and a fund for his children.

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• Hedges
• Breakfast
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• Field
• acoustic
• guitar
• kent
• state

[CoNuNdRuMBoi]

This performance was recorded the year I was born and here I am 24 years later watching and loving it so much that I covered it at my show last week and posted it up on youtube! His music is timeless and will live on forever :)

[methodinsane]

Hedges was on Windham Hill, Will Ackermans label.

[Rikk303]

@CoNuNdRuMBoi I wish I was 26 again in a way, but then no

[fempixel11]

First time I heard Mike I knew I had to go see him play. I had tickets to see him at the Boar's Head in Oklahoma City but he died before the show. He was amazing, a one of a kind, like Joni Mitchell.

[Carinaheartsworldluv]

@DeuceWayne420 This is a pretty standard way of posting tunings. The number refers to the octave the note is in. So for this one you tune like this

Low E- two whole steps down to C

A- one whole step down to G

D- as is

G- five half steps down to D

B- one whole step down to A

E- as is

[DeuceWayne420]

what do you mean by C2 G2 ..i only know flats and sharps whats this number business ..could you post the tuning in a normal way

[375GTB]

"The man is gone, but his music will never die!"

Kraig Kenning....

J.C.

[gking407]

My parents let me listen to their Aerial Boundaries cassette until it warped. I was 12 then and couldn't have realized how much this music would affect me later in life.

[whouston33wh]

I can't believe that this was over 25 years ago...I wish I could have seen him live.

The inspiration for this song is one of the most beautiful things ever. Its about the way the sky looked like when dawn was approaching in a wheat field in Oklahoma. He said that it was still dark yet the moon and the sun were at opposite ends. The music he wrote for it really seems like the way it would have sounded....

[alefingerstyleguitar]

Michael you'll live in our hearts forever!!!

[boden05]

same year i was born as well :)

[Hedges001]

so true, yet Bartok inspired this tune.