Solo piano on vinyl. Not really Jazz or Classical and far from Pop These types of recordings were sometimes called New Age for no good reason. I've always hated that label. It's not part of that way of life. It's just piano playing. There were a great many of these recordings (solo acoustic piano and solo acoustic guitar) made in the 1980's starting with the Windham Hill records but by the early 1990's the form had devolved into adding other instrumentation and slowly began to fade away.
From 1984. This is a alternate version of the album cover. Not what was used on my copy. I couldn't find a better image of the actual artwork.
From starting out listening to my parents records to staying up late at night listening to the radio to being introduced to album collecting as a teenager to making mix-tapes and into the present, it seems that I've always been searching for and listening to music of widely varied genres. Here's an idea of what I've been hearing along the way ....
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Leo Kottke
Leo Kottke - 12 String Blues: Live at the Scholar Coffeehouse. On the Oblivion Recording Company label. From 1969. Found today at my old rec...
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'Floating' by Warren Bernhardt. From 1979, on vinyl. I read yesterday, that Warren Bernhardt had passed away a few days ago at 82 ye...
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Peter Gabriel - i/o. It's on order but won't arrive for a few more days. I'm considering taking the day off from work. I used to...
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