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The Clearing

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Soothing, inspiring, exhilarating, thoroughly enjoyable, I am buying double copies. One for home and one for the office....the car might be next. I could do no better than to suggest all of Dan's cd's to everyone!

I don't know what else to say, just give it a listen...he's a great writer/player, one of the best I've heard.

I honestly love every song on this CD! I listen to it all of the time and have a copy at work that I play for my students while they're working. It is incredible!

A lot of people in West Texas and New Mexico know who Dan is but the rest of the country and the world needs to hear him. He is really a unique guitar player. He writes his own music and it's very beautiful. His music is NOT that jazzmenco stuff that proliferates the Southwest so much, although I hear jazz and flamenco in the mix. It draws on many cultures and styles. I even hear some rock influence, but you can really tell that he's been influenced by music from everywhere, all over the world. To me Dan Lambert's music is like the Southwest itself, very much a melting pot. BEAUTIFUL STEEL STRING GUITAR.

This is probably the most Celtic of Dan's cd's, probably the most folksy also. I like the way that he states the melody or theme of a piece, then plays around with it for a bit and then comes back to the "head" at the end. In that way this cd is sort of like jazz only in a Celtic and bluesy and folksy way. You can probably hear Dan's roots more in this cd than in his later ones, "Plaids" and "Melodies/Improvisations". It's neat to hear where he came from a bit more. These tracks each have a couple of guitars interacting with each other (actually, there are a few solo tracks and sections), I love to hear how his mind works with multiple instruments. Trust me when I say that you need to listen to this over and over because there is always something new that you've missed before.