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Michael Hedges - Breakfast in the Field Audio CD

A fair review of the Michael Hedges "Breakfast in the Field" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Michael Hedges reviews here, or go back to the Michael Hedges tabs.

Michael Hedges Band: Michael Hedges
Title: Breakfast in the Field
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Layover 2: Happy Couple 3: Eleven Small Roaches 4: Funky Avocado 5: Baby Toes 6: Breakfast in the Field 7: Two Days Old 8: Peg Leg Speed King 9: Unexpected Visitor 10: Silent Anticipations 11: Lenono

My Favoirte Acoutstic Album
Every song on here is a masterpiece. Michael Hedges was so far ahead of his time (or any time for that matter). These are real compositions. . . not just a bunch of guitar riffs. The depth of sound in these recordings is amazing. It is almost all acoustic. There are a few pieces with a fretless base and one with a piano.

Micheal had the amazing ability to make one guitar sound like 3 with incredible depth and color. He was an incredible composer and an amazing player. The guitarist from another planet was a master and a pioneer. This first album contains some of his best work. I could not recommend it more highly. .


New sound
Hedges use of harmonics and deep and low notes creates a unique experience for the listener. When I first listened to this album, I think it was back in 1987, it was a blow of joy for my ears, a new style, a new very creative way of playing acoustic guitar. Great album, great player.


Excellent!!!!!!
Michael Hedges is the top guitarist of all time in my opinion!! His compositions and inovative style are unsurpassed!!!.


Haunting - like life, examined


Thankfully, both were still intact, and Breakfast in the Field soon became an album I was never without. My parents flirted with Hedges as I was growing up, playing Breakfast in the Field and Live on the Double Planet every so often, and so when, at the age of 15 or so, the news caster played a clip of his "Because it's There" in memory of his life and death, I recognized the song and immediately went and searched out the cds which had floated in and out of my childhood. This remains true, having replaced it a few times after losing or giving it away. And it is an album I will have until I die.

My favorites are The Happy Couple, Baby Toes, Two Days Old, and Lenono - and yet I can start the album at any point and listen, enthralled, until it ends. Each track is gorgeous, and each is incredibly different. And different from anything else you'll ever hear, especially with the added bonus of Michael Manring on multiple tracks (his additions inspiring me to buy a fretless bass).

This is one of those albums that, as another reviewer has said, will bring you to tears. He (the reviewer) is a year older than my 23 years - and here are two grown, but still young men talking about crying over another man with an acoustic guitar.

Just take some time and listen. By yourself, in a dark room, as the snow falls outside. It will find you.


Where's the music?
Not in the same class as L. Very little melody,harmony, or rhythm. Juber,D. Smith,or even E. Gerhardt. Boring.


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