These songs are written, performed and intended for easy listening. Acoustic thoughts if you will. But complete thoughts at the time they were written and recorded, hence the vignettes idea to describe them. I have been partnered with guitar since 1971 where I began learning to copy songs off my vinyl back in the day.

The realms of genres I've been deeply immersed in, tangentially connected to, met in passing, drawn into by music comrades, studied, investigated, absorbed, tolerated, interconnected and redrawn, and have been carried by, are as varied as it gets, dating back to the early 60's listening to all styles on record players and radios everywhere. You will hear bits and pieces of these influences and more edged into the vignettes here. That's why I coined my own genre "Independent Acoustic" way back when I was first going online with my music on the Internet in 1995, as there is no single genre that applies to my work.

So this collection of what I'm calling acoustic vignettes has cohesion in whatever genres it might get assigned by others; sometimes quasi classical sometimes celtic irish sometimes light jazz/pop, mexicali, ballroom dance style, old timey, new age, strong hints of bluegrass, jazzy r&b or blues or folk. Even a touch from Hawaii on spontaneous uke. But the instrument for once gets to say it all. At least nearly all, as I felt the 2 songs with lyrics also belonged here as unsung styles to the past where the voice is still not exactly forefront.

Most tracks here can be found on the more complete Hawai'i recordings release "Voice Memo: Songs from Hawai'i. The tunes are collected and remastered here as sibling instrumentals.

Many tunes here are on the soundtrack to my Eternal Double Rainbow live footage video over the Kilauea Crater in Hawai'i Volcanoes Nat'l. Park. See some strong nature at work with mellow acoustic behind the scenes.

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