Michael Hedges

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Ragamuffin 03:16 Tools
Aerial Boundaries 04:43 Tools
Rickover's Dream 04:49 Tools
Bensusan 02:31 Tools
Because It's There 03:05 Tools
After The Gold Rush 04:09 Tools
Spare Change 05:46 Tools
Hot Type 01:31 Tools
Java Man 03:46 Tools
Ritual Dance 00:00 Tools
Eleven Small Roaches 00:00 Tools
Jitterboogie 00:00 Tools
Ursa Major 00:00 Tools
Chava's Song 00:00 Tools
All Along The Watchtower 03:04 Tools
The Funky Avocado 02:07 Tools
The Magic Farmer 03:55 Tools
Ménage à Trois 07:07 Tools
Layover 00:00 Tools
When I Was 4 04:19 Tools
Oracle 00:00 Tools
The Unexpected Visitor 00:00 Tools
The 2nd Law 00:00 Tools
The Double Planet 00:00 Tools
Rikki's Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Silent Anticipations 03:21 Tools
Breakfast In The Field 00:00 Tools
Sofa No. 1 00:00 Tools
Two Days Old 00:00 Tools
Baal T'shuvah 00:00 Tools
Dream Beach 00:00 Tools
Gospel 02:22 Tools
Woman Of The World 00:00 Tools
The Streamlined Man 03:48 Tools
Peg Leg Speed King 00:00 Tools
Dirge 00:00 Tools
Tomorrow Never Knows 00:00 Tools
The Happy Couple 00:00 Tools
Fusion Of The Five Elements 00:00 Tools
Lenono 00:00 Tools
I Carry Your Heart 04:58 Tools
Theme From Hatari! 00:00 Tools
Baby Toes 00:00 Tools
Ignition 03:30 Tools
Come Together 00:00 Tools
The Jade Stalk 00:00 Tools
If I Needed Someone 00:00 Tools
Ready or Not 00:00 Tools
Arrowhead 00:00 Tools
Aura Müünta 02:58 Tools
Scenes (On The Road To Shrub 2) 00:00 Tools
Point B 00:00 Tools
Point A 00:00 Tools
The Naked Stalk 00:00 Tools
Jitterboogie (family version) 00:00 Tools
The Jealous Tunnel - About Face 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Spirit Farmer 00:00 Tools
A Love Bizarre 00:00 Tools
What Child Is This 00:00 Tools
Nomad Land 00:00 Tools
The Rootwitch 00:00 Tools
Spring Buds 00:00 Tools
Torched 00:00 Tools
The First Cutting 00:00 Tools
Road To Return 00:00 Tools
Follow Through 00:00 Tools
Phoenix Fire 00:00 Tools
Sapphire 00:00 Tools
Promised Land 00:00 Tools
Shell Shock Venus 00:00 Tools
Watching My Life Go By 00:00 Tools
Free Swinging Soul 00:00 Tools
Rough Wind In Oklahoma 00:00 Tools
Prelude to Cello Suite #1 In G Major 00:00 Tools
Prelude 02:15 Tools
Running Blind 00:00 Tools
Gospel of Mary / Holy Flame 00:00 Tools
Face Yourself 00:00 Tools
Sister Soul 00:00 Tools
I'm Coming Home 00:00 Tools
India 00:00 Tools
Guardian's Trust 00:00 Tools
Communicate 00:00 Tools
Because it`s There 00:00 Tools
Rickover`s Dream 00:00 Tools
Road Music 00:00 Tools
Prelude to Cello Suite #1 (JS Bach) 00:00 Tools
I Want You 00:00 Tools
You Can Have Anything You Want 04:26 Tools
Pinball Wizard 00:00 Tools
Out On The Parkway 00:00 Tools
Coda: Free Swinging Soul (1994 Concert) 00:00 Tools
Holiday 00:00 Tools
A Midwinter Night's Dream 00:00 Tools
In Dulci Jublio (Good Christian Men Rejoice) 00:00 Tools
Gimme Shelter 00:00 Tools
The Funky Avacado 00:00 Tools
Because It's There (Live) 00:00 Tools
Prel. To Cello Suite #1 00:00 Tools
Sofa No.1 00:00 Tools
Fantasia 00:00 Tools
The Double Planet (Live) 00:00 Tools
Ménage á Trois 07:07 Tools
What Child Is This? 00:00 Tools
She Drives Me Crazy 00:00 Tools
While my Guitar Gently Weeps 00:00 Tools
Rickover's Dream [Live] 00:00 Tools
Ragamuffin [Live] 00:00 Tools
The Double Planet [Live] 00:00 Tools
Prelude to Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major 00:00 Tools
Aerial Boundaries [Live] 00:00 Tools
Comfortably Numb 00:00 Tools
A Love Bizarre (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Funky Avocado [Live] 00:00 Tools
Aerial Boundries 00:00 Tools
The Funky Avacado (live) 00:00 Tools
Silent Anticipation 00:00 Tools
Prelude to Cello Suite #1 00:00 Tools
Blackbird 00:00 Tools
Sofa No. 1 (Live) 00:00 Tools
Spare Change (live) 00:00 Tools
Eminence Front 00:00 Tools
The Jealous Tunnel / About Face 00:00 Tools
Rickover's Dream (Live) 00:00 Tools
Gospel (Live) 00:00 Tools
Bouree 00:00 Tools
Because It's There [Live] 00:00 Tools
Spanish Guitar 00:00 Tools
Yesterday 00:00 Tools
The Funky Avocado (Live) 00:00 Tools
Pachelbel Loose Canon 00:00 Tools
Greensleeves 00:00 Tools
The Funky Avacado [Live] 00:00 Tools
Wondering Where the Lions Are 00:00 Tools
Aerial Boundaries (live) 00:00 Tools
[Hidden Track] 00:00 Tools
Greensleves 00:00 Tools
Come Together (Live) 00:00 Tools
Like a Rolling Stone 00:00 Tools
Bensusan (live) 00:00 Tools
Aurora/Nevermore 00:00 Tools
Prelude To Cello Suite # 1 00:00 Tools
Greenleaves (anonymous) 00:00 Tools
All Along The Watchtower (live) 00:00 Tools
Lucky Star 00:00 Tools
Rootwitch 00:00 Tools
Rickover's Dream (2) 00:00 Tools
New England Morning 00:00 Tools
Buffalo Stance 00:00 Tools
Almost Cut My Hair 00:00 Tools
Prelude To Cello Suite 00:00 Tools
Mother Nature's Son 00:00 Tools
In Dulci Jubilo 00:00 Tools
Bensusan [Live] 00:00 Tools
Rikkis Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Ménage ŕ Trois 00:00 Tools
What Child is This (Greensleeves) 00:00 Tools
Watermelon Man 00:00 Tools
Arial Boundaries 00:00 Tools
What Child is This? [Hidden Track] 00:00 Tools
Don't Think Twice 00:00 Tools
Free Swinging Soul [Live] 00:00 Tools
Cello Suite #1 in G Major (Bach) 00:00 Tools
Sofa 1 (Frank Zappa) 00:00 Tools
Canon Guitar 00:00 Tools
Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones cover) 00:00 Tools
Two Worlds 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' Jack Flash 00:00 Tools
Ready Or Not (Live) 00:00 Tools
Silent Anticipations (Live) 00:00 Tools
Lava Man 00:00 Tools
Breakfast In The Field (Live) 00:00 Tools
No Expectations 00:00 Tools
Funeral Town 00:00 Tools
Welcome To the New Year 00:00 Tools
Woman Of The World (Live) 00:00 Tools
Two Days Old (Live) 00:00 Tools
Because Its There 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - All Along the Watchtower 00:00 Tools
05_[96.10.06] - Ritual Dance 00:00 Tools
Rikki's Shuffle (Live) 00:00 Tools
Comfortably Numb [Harpguitar] 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - The Rootwitch 00:00 Tools
Beatles Medley 00:00 Tools
Baal T'shuvah (Live) 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [97.07.06] - While my Guitar Gently Weeps 00:00 Tools
Ménage à Trois 00:00 Tools
Menage à Trois 00:00 Tools
Syrinx 00:00 Tools
01_[96.10.03] - Baal T'shuvah (live) 00:00 Tools
04_[5-5-86NY] - FunkyAvocado 00:00 Tools
FunkyAvocado 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
10_[DET Live] - Jitterboogie 00:00 Tools
The Unespected Visitor 00:00 Tools
Chava’s Song 00:00 Tools
Free Swinging Soul [Live 1994 Concert][*] 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [81.03.20] - Blackbird 00:00 Tools
03_[97.07.06] - Rootwitch 00:00 Tools
Sofa No 1 00:00 Tools
Bach - Prelude to Cello Suite 00:00 Tools
Jitter Boogie 00:00 Tools
Because It'sThere 00:00 Tools
I Carry Your Heart - (with Graham Nash/David Crosby) 00:00 Tools
13_[5-5-86NY] - Because It'sThere 00:00 Tools
12_[97.09.21] - Aerial_Boundaries 00:00 Tools
14_[95.09.30] - Torched 00:00 Tools
Floating 00:00 Tools
Come Talk To Me 00:00 Tools
07 - Spare Change 00:00 Tools
07_[97.09.21] - Arrowhead 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [97.11.12] - Comfortably Numb [Harpguitar] 00:00 Tools
Gospel » Tomorrow Never Knows 00:00 Tools
11_[96.10.03] - Silent_Anticipations 00:00 Tools
Pete Lang Syne 00:00 Tools
All Along The Watchtower - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
(Ghost Track) 00:00 Tools
Layover - Studio Session WCBN Miami 1985 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - Rickover's Dream 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [94.10.29] - Sapphire 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [97.09.21] - All Along the Watchtower 00:00 Tools
08_[5-5-86NY] - BreakfastInTheField 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries 00:00 Tools
Aerial_Boundaries 00:00 Tools
Spring Buds [Live] 00:00 Tools
Gospel Law 00:00 Tools
Scenes 00:00 Tools
Aerial Boundaries '84 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [96.10.03] - Yesterday 00:00 Tools
Ritual Dance - Michael Hedges 00:00 Tools
02_[96.10.03] - Gospel » Tomorrow Never Knows 00:00 Tools
Baal T`shuvah 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [live 1981] - Wondering Where the Lions Ar~1 00:00 Tools
No Expectations [Harpguitar] 00:00 Tools
BreakfastInTheField 00:00 Tools
The Jealous Tunnel\ About Face 00:00 Tools
Prelude To Cello Suite 1 In G Major 00:00 Tools
Silent Anticipations - Studio Session WCBN Miami 1985 00:00 Tools
Naked Stalk 00:00 Tools
Point A » Point B 00:00 Tools
All Along The Watchtower (03) Michael Hedges - Live 00:00 Tools
Celtic Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [95.09.30] - Two Worlds 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [97.09.21] - No Expectations [harpguitar] 00:00 Tools
02 Bensusan 00:00 Tools
Silent_Anticipations 00:00 Tools
Woman Of The World - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
michael hedges - spanish guitar 00:00 Tools
Eleven Small Roaches - Studio Session WCBN Miami 1985 00:00 Tools
Ariel Boundaries - Studio Session WCBN Miami 1985 00:00 Tools
A Love Bizarre Hutchins Concert Hall Uni. MA 1987 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [95.09.30] - Funeral Town 00:00 Tools
09_[5-5-86NY] - Two Days Old 00:00 Tools
Deep skies 00:00 Tools
All Along the Watchtower [Live] 00:00 Tools
Aura Mььnta 00:00 Tools
Funky Avocado, The 00:00 Tools
Baby Toes - Studio Session WCBN Miami 1985 00:00 Tools
The Rootwich 00:00 Tools
Breakfast In The Field - Studio Session WCBN Miami 1985 00:00 Tools
Love Bizarre 00:00 Tools
Face Yourself - Studio Session WCBN Miami 1985 00:00 Tools
Rickover’s Dream - Studio Session WCBN Miami 1985 00:00 Tools
Riki's Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Mйnage а Trois 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [95.09.30] - Almost Cut My Hair 00:00 Tools
[81.03.20] - Blackbird 00:00 Tools
Becuase It's There 00:00 Tools
07 Spare Change 00:00 Tools
08 - Menage a Trois 00:00 Tools
Happy Couple, The 00:00 Tools
Aeriel Boundaries 00:00 Tools
Jealous Tunnel/About Face 00:00 Tools
Gospel [#] 00:00 Tools
Sofa #1 00:00 Tools
Chat I - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix cover) 00:00 Tools
Ragamuffin - Studio Session WCBN Miami 1985 00:00 Tools
All Along The Watchtower Hutchins Concert Hall Uni. MA 1987 00:00 Tools
Silent Anticipations - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - Ritual Dance 00:00 Tools
Knockin' on Heaven's Door 00:00 Tools
Silent Anticipations [live] 00:00 Tools
[97.11.12] - Comfortably Numb [Harpguitar] 00:00 Tools
06 Hot Type 00:00 Tools
[96.10.03] - Yesterday 00:00 Tools
03 Rickover's Dream 00:00 Tools
If I Need Someone 00:00 Tools
Breakfast In The Field Musicians Exchange FL 1987 00:00 Tools
06 - Oracle 00:00 Tools
Prelude to Cello Suite No. 1 00:00 Tools
Raggamuffin 00:00 Tools
All Along The Watchtower - Michael Hedges - Acoustic Pop - Live On The Double Planet 00:00 Tools
02 - The Happy Couple 00:00 Tools
Two Old Days 00:00 Tools
Lucky Star (live) 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [94.10.29] - Follow Through [ive with Manr~1 00:00 Tools
Streamlined Man, the 00:00 Tools
01 - The 2nd Law 00:00 Tools
07 - Gospel 00:00 Tools
09 The Magic Farmer 00:00 Tools
First Cutting 00:00 Tools
Ready Or Not Palace Theater, NH 1987 00:00 Tools
07 - Two Days Old 00:00 Tools
Come Together Ontario Bathurst St. Theare 1987 00:00 Tools
Rickover’s Dream - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - Ragamuffin 00:00 Tools
08 - Peg Leg Speed King 00:00 Tools
Becuase It's There Liberty Hall, KS 1987 00:00 Tools
Come Together - Michael Hedges - Acoustic Pop - Live On The Double Planet 00:00 Tools
The Jealous Tunnel - About Fa 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [90.winter] - Point A » Point B [live on t~1 00:00 Tools
Gimme Shelter [Live] 00:00 Tools
01 Aerial Boundaries 00:00 Tools
Second Law, the 00:00 Tools
05 - Jitterboogie 00:00 Tools
02 - Ignition 00:00 Tools
03 - Baal T'shuvah 00:00 Tools
04 - Dirge 00:00 Tools
08 - Tomorrow Never Knows 00:00 Tools
12 - Sofa No. 1 00:00 Tools
[97.09.21] - All Along the Watchtower 00:00 Tools
Silent Anticipations Auburn Uni. Al 1987 00:00 Tools
The Funky Avocado Auburn Uni. AL 1987 00:00 Tools
The Streamlined Man - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Sofa 00:00 Tools
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Live) 00:00 Tools
M駭age ・Trois 00:00 Tools
Follow Through - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Aerial Boundaries - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Because It's There '87 00:00 Tools
Ragamuffin - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Chat VIII - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
When I Was 00:00 Tools
When I Was 4 '96 00:00 Tools
Baal T'shuva 00:00 Tools
10 - Silent Anticipations 00:00 Tools
11 - Lenono 00:00 Tools
[95.09.30] - Funeral Town 00:00 Tools
All Around The Watchtower 00:00 Tools
Woman Of The World 1986 SIR Hollywood, CA 00:00 Tools
Free Swinging Soul [Live On Dumbek] 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - [97.07.06] - Free Swinging Soul [live on d~1 00:00 Tools
Rickover’s Dream 00:00 Tools
She Drives me Crazy (Philips University 3) 00:00 Tools
Come Together [live] 00:00 Tools
05 After The Gold Rush 00:00 Tools
Rickover's Dream [#] 00:00 Tools
Sofa No. 1 [#] 00:00 Tools
Naked Stalk, The 00:00 Tools
11 - Jitterboogie (family version) 00:00 Tools
14 - What Child Is This 00:00 Tools
Chat II - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Chat III - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Chat VII - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Chat IV - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
A Love Bizarre - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Dancing In The Backseat - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
What Child is This [Hidden Track] 00:00 Tools
The Road to Return 00:00 Tools
Chat V - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Chat VI - Bonus track: Live - Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota 1st Feb 1986 00:00 Tools
Chava`s Song 00:00 Tools
[94.10.29] - Sapphire 00:00 Tools
LADO A- Aerial Boundaries 00:00 Tools
A Love Bizzare 00:00 Tools
Magic Farmer [*] 00:00 Tools
Breakfast In The Field [live] 00:00 Tools
Magic Farmer, the 00:00 Tools
[live 1981] - Wondering Where the Lions Are 00:00 Tools
Dirge (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
10 - Aura Muunta 00:00 Tools
09 - Theme From HATARI! 00:00 Tools
Prelude to Cello 00:00 Tools
Rikki's Shuffle Carolina Coliseum SC 1987 00:00 Tools
Sappire 00:00 Tools
Rickover's Dream '84 00:00 Tools
Free Swinging Soul - (Live) 00:00 Tools
[97.07.06] - While my Guitar Gently Weeps 00:00 Tools
The Double Planet Virginia Beach Pavillion 1987 00:00 Tools
Two Days Old The Spectrum in Montreal 1987 00:00 Tools
05 - Baby Toes 00:00 Tools
Hawk Circle 00:00 Tools
09 - The Unexpected Visitor 00:00 Tools
[97.09.21] - No Expectations [harpguitar] 00:00 Tools
Follow Through [ive with Manring] 00:00 Tools
After The Gold Rudh 00:00 Tools
Jabberwocky 00:00 Tools
I Misunderstood 00:00 Tools
celtic instrumental sound 00:00 Tools
[95.09.30] - Two Worlds 00:00 Tools
A Love Bizarre [live] 00:00 Tools
Ursa Major (Michael Hedges) 00:00 Tools
Ready Or Not [live] 00:00 Tools
Flying Near the Ground 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges 00:00 Tools
Shell sock Venus 00:00 Tools
Jade Stalk 00:00 Tools
Free Swinging Soul [live on d~1 00:00 Tools
Outside Cabin 11 [demo] 00:00 Tools
Woman Of The World - Michael Hedges - Acoustic Pop - Live On The Double Planet 00:00 Tools
I Don't Live Today 00:00 Tools
Blackbird (live) 00:00 Tools
Follow Through [ive with Manr~1 00:00 Tools
04 - The Funky Avacado 00:00 Tools
Gospel of Mary-The Holy Flame 00:00 Tools
- Bensusan -- Aerial Boundaries (1984) -- A5918-MHEDGES-AEIRBOUN-CN-BT 00:00 Tools
Wondering Where the Lions Ar~1 00:00 Tools
Gospel Of Mary /The Holy Flame 00:00 Tools
Laser Love [demo] 00:00 Tools
Two Days Old - Michael Hedges - Acoustic Pop - Live On The Double Planet 00:00 Tools
Rickover´s dream 00:00 Tools
11 Small Roaches [demo] 00:00 Tools
Blowin' In The Wind 00:00 Tools
Ignition (with Michael Manring) 00:00 Tools
Where Do the Children Play 00:00 Tools
Canon in D 00:00 Tools
Michael Hedges - Sofa 1 (Frank 00:00 Tools
The Second Law 00:00 Tools
Rickoner's Dream 00:00 Tools
Ménage á Trois 00:00 Tools
Gospel Of Mary/Holy Flame 00:00 Tools
Mènage À Trois 00:00 Tools
Funky Avocado, the [live] 00:00 Tools
Adrianne [demo] 00:00 Tools
Jade Stalk, The 00:00 Tools
Taproot 00:00 Tools
She Drives Me Crazy [live] 00:00 Tools
Rootwitch, The 00:00 Tools
First Cutting, The 00:00 Tools
Michael Manring with Michael Hedges - Menage A Trois 00:00 Tools
Michael Manring with Michael Hedges - After the Gold Rush 00:00 Tools
Follow Through [live] 00:00 Tools
Greenleaves 00:00 Tools
01 - The Naked Stalk 00:00 Tools
Saphire 00:00 Tools
Aerial BoundariesLive 00:00 Tools
Down On The Block [demo] 00:00 Tools
04-Ragamuffin 00:00 Tools
LADO A- Layover 00:00 Tools
Hot Hype 00:00 Tools
When I was 4 //Yoga Zone: .../ 00:00 Tools
Ritual Dancel 00:00 Tools
Flying Near The Ground [demo] 00:00 Tools
- After the Gold Rush -- Aerial Boundaries (1984) -- A5918-MHEDGES-AEIRBOUN-CN-BT 00:00 Tools
M?nage ? Trois 00:00 Tools
Sofa No. 1 (Frank Zappa) 00:00 Tools
Scenes (On The Road To Shrub 00:00 Tools
Because It's There - Michael Hedges - Acoustic Pop - Live On The Double Planet 00:00 Tools
Areial Boundries 00:00 Tools
Point A » Point B [Live On Transtrem] 00:00 Tools
Ready Or Not - Michael Hedges - Acoustic Pop - Live On The Double Planet 00:00 Tools
Silent Anticipation - Michael Hedges - Acoustic Pop - Live On The Double Planet 00:00 Tools
Prelude To Cello Suite 1 (Js Bach) 00:00 Tools
Captain Kennedy 00:00 Tools
Masters Of War 00:00 Tools
08 Menage a Trois 00:00 Tools
06 00:00 Tools
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Michael Adam Hedges (December 31, 1953 – December 2, 1997) was an American composer and acoustic guitarist born in Sacramento, CA. He studied classical guitar at Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential solo acoustic guitarists of all time. His music features his own unique performing style which features harmonics, fingerpicking, knocking and slapping. Michael Hedges was a conservatory composition major who applied his classically trained musical background in combination with radical innovation to “reinvent” the steel string acoustic guitar. He combined many unusual techniques on the acoustic guitar with a wide range of musical styles, and was also considered a dynamic performer in concert - in short, a “Paganini” of the guitar. He is known for extensive use in several pieces of two handed tapping techniques (nearly a contrapuntal style of multiple voices). He used the fingers of his right (typically picking) hand to slap harmonic "chords" at the 12th, 7th or 5th fret (or elsewhere). He made use of right hand hammer-ons, particularly on bass notes, and often used the left hand for melodic or rhythmic hammer-ons and pull offs, as well as unusual strummings, that played, as mentioned, independent voices to the right hand. These techniques tended to convert the guitar into a quasi-keyboard like instrument for certain musical purposes. He also made extensive use of string dampening as employed in classical guitar, and was known to insist strongly on the precise duration of sounds and silences in his pieces. Other facets to his playing were percussive slapping on the guitar body and extensive use of artificial harmonics. He also played guitar-variants like the Harp Guitar (an instrument with additional bass strings that Hedges used to play Bach's Prelude to Cello Suite #1 in G Major in its intended key), and the Trans-Trem Guitar. Michael Hedges was discovered by William Ackerman who heard him performing in a Palo Alto cafe (the former Varsity Theater) and immediately signed him to a recording contract (1980). For several years Hedges toured and performed in concert with Ackerman. He also appeared on several of Ackerman's albums. In turn William Ackerman produced Hedge's first two albums. The first two records Michael Hedges made - Breakfast in the Field and Aerial Boundaries - were milestones for the acoustic guitar. He then branched out into singing and performing more popular forms of music, although he would periodically make a return to more guitar-centred music. His record Oracle won the 1998 Grammy for Best New Age Album. Hedges was in fact quite a multi-instrumentalist, playing piano, percussion, tin whistle, harmonica, and flute, among others on his albums. Bassist Michael Manring contributed to many of Michael's records. Many acoustic guitarists claim a very broad range of influences and will not fit into any genre, but this was truer of Hedges than of any other. His musical education was largely in modern 20th century composition. He listened to Leo Kottke, Bruce Cockburn, Martin Carthy, John Martyn, John Fahey, and the Beatles, but his approach to composition owed much to Stravinsky, Varèse, Webern, and experimental composers such as Morton Feldman. He saw himself as a composer who played guitar, rather than a guitarist who composed music. He was often categorized as New Age due to his association with the Windham Hill record label. Somewhat in reaction to this, he would describe his music as "Heavy Mental", "New Edge", ""Thrash Acoustic", "Deep Tissue Gladiator Guitar" or "Savage Myth Guitar," amongst other terms. Hedges was killed in a car accident in 1997 at the age of 43. His unfinished last recordings were brought to completion in the album Torched, with the help of his friends David Crosby and Graham Nash. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.