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Tunes Tunes is a wonderful collection from Stephen, including the mixed metered Fields of Plastic, flatpicking marvel Afton Mountain, and one of this writer's all-time favorites - C.E.O. About C.E.O., Stephen writes, "That's Comanche Executive Officer. This is for a friend. When Bi...	Beatles Acoustic Guitar Solos I have loved the Beatles since I started playing guitar in the late '60s. Over the years I have put together solo arrangements of many of their tunes, those presented here and many others. For this recording however, I have gone back and reworked these 15 tunes so that they are a...	Reflections This is Stephen's latest solo recording. Sixteen original tunes, written in the last year, played on the Maestro's 6-string, steel, and harp guitars.	The Mystery When Tommy Emmanuel opened this new album with the fire-breathing "Cantina Senese," I suspected he was finally going to do the rip-roaring country-old-timey-Celtic-jazz CD featuring the crowd-pleasing tunes he pulls out during concerts. But it doesn't take him long to slip into t...	Pictures This CD includes one of Stephen's great works, Suite for Slavomir. Stephen's liner notes read: "This music was inspired by a book entitled The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz which relates the story of how the author, a 26 year-old Polish cavalry lieutenant, was captured by the Sov...
The Gates of Gnomeria Gates of Gnomeria is a collection of Andy McKee original songs and two covers. His cover of Bjorks, Venus as a Boy is a stunning multi-track arrangement of one of her best known songs from her debut. Join by Bassist Jeff Schmidt on two songs, A Sphere and Dependant Arising, the s...	Kill to Get Crimson Three decades after Dire Straits broke onto the scene with their remarkable debut, Mark Knopfler remains an iconic figure in popular music, his graceful guitar playing equaled only by his genial baritone and a novelist's ability to create distinct characters and themes in his son...	Migrations With each release, this Canadian quintet's adventurous, energetic eclecticism sounds more like a signature fusion (and less like bluegrass, despite Tania Elizabeth's fiddle and Leonard Podolak's banjo). The material on Migrations ranges all over the map--geographical as well as m...	Christmas: Acoustic Guitar Solos This is not the same Christmas music your parents made you listen to. Stephen has put his style and flair on traditional Christmas music. From the funky Good King Wenceslas, through Britten's Ceremony of Carols and Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, to O Holy Night ...	Art of Motion In my humble opinion, Andy is the most innovative and exciting fingerstyle guitarist to emerge in years. Still in his 20's, Andy has developed a mastery of the 6-string guitar and the harp guitar that leaves me speechless. He is the most textural player of the instrument since Mi...

Love it
Wonderful acoustic guitar...and I love it that not every cut sounds alike. This is not "new age"...which can sometimes sound so much a like that you hardly realize there is more than one cut on the album. Beautiful music that I wish I could make on my guitar...if only I had talent!!

Melody, Harmonics and Composition are all fabulous
So many people have told me that this is their favorite Stephen Bennett cd. I agree that it is full of wonderful tunes and seems to fully capture the range of what Stephen Bennett can do on the guitar. It's not just his superb playing, incredible melodies and harmonics, but this cd also highlights his amazing compositonal skills. Two of my favorites on this cd are Walk on Winkfield Row and The Most Beautiful Sky. It's also a great treat to see Stephen and Tommy Emmanuel play Most Beautiful Sky together on stage. I am a big Stephen Bennett fan!