Michael Hedges "Platinum & Gold Collection"

Michael Hedges "Platinum & Gold Collection"

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Michael Hedges
Platinum & Gold Collection
The Story
MIchael Hedges' "Platinum & Gold Collection" is a compilation that features his best-known songs, along with some rare photos, informative lines notes and digital remastering. As John Dilberto writes in the liner notes, "Michael Hedges rewrote the book on acoustic guitar. From his debut album 'Breakfast In The Field' in 1981 to his untimely passing in 1997, Hedges always had musicians standing slackjawed watching him play. The smart one didn't hang around for autographs, they ran back to the woodshed, trying to assimilate an approach that radicalized the guitar the way that Einstein radicalized physics. His methods allowed the guitarist to play the often extravagant compositions he heard in his head, a veritable symphony of sound that he transposed to the acoustic guitar, except for those times when he overdubbed flute, keyboards, and just about anything else this wunderkind picked up."
The Music
04:40 Aerial Boundaries Instrumental
03:10 Because It's There Instrumental
03:22 The Double Planet Instrumental
02:16 Ritual Dance Instrumental
03:59 Tomorrow Never Knows Vocal
02:58 All Along The Watchtower Vocal
04:08 After The Gold Rush Instrumental
04:06 Oracle Instrumental
04:13 Woman Of The World Vocal
04:42 Two Days Old Instrumental
02:29 Bensusan Instrumental
03:27 Ignition Instrumental
The Artists
Michael Hedges Guitar, Production
William Ackerman Production
Steven Miller Production
Elliot Mazer Production
John Dilberto Liner Notes
Gretchen Brennison Compilation Production
Bruce Pollock Compilation
Elliott Federman Mastering
John Hudson Project Direction
Jeremy Holiday Project Direction
Mathieu Bitton Art Direction, Design
Mastered at SAJE Sound, NYC.