Greetings to the world.  I’m clearly not so good at keeping up here as I haven’t written anything in a few months.  Oh well…

The latest news, hmm, let’s see:

- The next cd project is rapidly nearing completion.  This is the collection of rock tunes for harp guitar that I recorded a few months ago.  It’s nearly ready to go to duplication.  I’m very happy with how this has turned out and think you will be too.  Tunes included are: Incense and Peppermints, Born To Be Wild, Light My Fire, White Room, A Whiter Shade Of Pale, The Court of the Crimson King, Soon, Teacher, Honky Tonk Women, Breathe/Time, Behind Blue Eyes, Can’t Find My Way Home, The Wind Cries Mary, and Theme For An Imaginary Western.  This will be released on the Harp Guitar Music label run by my friend Gregg Miner of harpguitars.net fame.

- The recording phase of another cd project of my own material will be completed the first week of August.  This will contain some tunes written and recorded before my surgeries of 2008 as well as some tunes written subsequently.  I’ll be working with my friend and recording engineer par excellence, Kim Person once again.

- I’ve taught at a couple of summer guitar camps again this year.  Was at Kaufman Kamp in Maryville, TN for the 6th time in June and taught for the first time at the Augusta Heritage Camps that are held in Elkins, WV a few weeks ago.  I love teaching and had a great time at both of these camps!

- Was at the NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) convention in Nashville last month representing Holloway Harp Guitars.  I think we made a real splash!  And we’ll do it again at the January NAMM show in Los Angeles.

- While I was in Nashville, I also played at All-Star Guitar Night.  This great evening of music has been put on by my friend Muriel Anderson for some years now and it was nice to be back! Here are some photos:  http://truefire.com/galleries/all-star-guitar-night-summer-2010/

- I’ll be  heading down to St. Petersburg next month to record a couple of dvds for harp guitar with my friends at TrueFire.com.  It’s about time!

- There are a number of youtube videos of me that are out there.  So far I have not actually put anything up myself.  I have now.  Nothing fancy, just me playing in front of my computer once in a while.  The channel is sbharpguitar.  I am already behind with that too – big surprise there!

- Other than that, I’ve just been writing and practicing and enjoying life.

Best wishes to all!

sb