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I recently bought this album knowing little about Danny Heines. I wouldn't normally take the time to write a review but this album has moved me to wax poetic. It is far and away the best guitar album to come along in years. I guess it's been out for a few years but it still sounds totally fresh. The guitar playing is brilliantly executed and highly innovative, while possessing a deeply soulful quality. His solo guitar pieces sound like a cross between Michael Hedges and Tuck Andress (of Tuck & Patty) yet completely original. The ensemble pieces have find Heines weaving hypnotic guitar textures into fresh arrangements that are full of delightful suprises . i.e. a sample of Pygmy voices, cellist David Darling , and vocalist Vicki Randle of the Tonight Show Band. The real clincher is even my wife likes this album. The first time we have a consensus in years. Anyway, I'd recommend it to anyone.

This guy can really play! If you like Hedges, youre going to love this disk! The technical skill this guy has is pretty amazing! He uses a lot of fret board work which sounds really cool!

Mellow, original riffs with your peace of mind in mind. Sends you somewhere, but only if you want to go. Just as easily unobtrusive background for reading, dinner, massage, whatever. No overproduced, Yanni-like crap anywhere on this cd. Consider this money well spent.

Anyone who listens to NPR's Morning Edition has heard this guy many times. A cut from this album provides the "deadroll" or somtimes called bumper music at least one or two times a week. I loved it from the beginning and just had to know if I could by a whole CD of this guy's stuff...happily, I can and did !