Breakfast in the Field
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| Studio album by Michael Hedges | ||||
| Released | 1981 | |||
| Recorded | The Music Annex, Menlo Park, CA | |||
| Genre | New-age, world | |||
| Length | 33:43 | |||
| Label | Windham Hill | |||
| Producer | Will Ackerman | |||
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Breakfast in the Field is the debut recording by guitarist Michael Hedges released on the Windham Hill label in 1981. It was recorded live to 2-track, with no overdubs.
Hedges composed and recorded "Eleven Small Roaches", "Baby Toes" and "Two Days Old" on a six-string guitar built in 1978 by Ken DuBourg of Arbutus, Maryland. The remaining tracks were recorded using a guitar made by Ervin Somogyi.
Music critic Jason Anderson, writing for Allmusic, wrote of the album "Hedges' compositional abilities alone would have been enough to mesmerize musicians and audiophiles, but his added improvisational skills put this recording way over the top both technically and artistically... While Hedges' follow-up, Aerial Boundaries, is often described as the guitarist's masterpiece, Breakfast in the Field has an early career spark and meditative yet passionate conviction that can't be surpassed.."
All compositions by Michael Hedges.
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