My great-grandfather’s harp guitar (Big Mama) turned 100 in 2009 – and that’s reason to celebrate! I did so by traveling with this wonderful instrument around the world (3 trips to Canada, all around the US, Latvia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Japan). Everywhere I went, people were amazed by the sound of this old harp guitar. I also recorded a cd of old tunes, ones that existed already in 1909 or that were written soon after. There’s nothing newer than 1916, other than one tune I wrote.

And, perhaps coolest of all is the fact that I was able to use actual recordings of Gonky (my great-grandfather’s nickname) made on a home reel to reel tape recorded in the early 1960’s on this new cd.

The amazing Kim Person did her usual outstanding job engineering this project – it sounds great!

Good Wood is available at the store page.