
Windham Hill Records
Michael Hedges - Taproot
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Our newest reissue from the Windham Hill Records catalog. For what Michael Hedges described as an "autobiographical myth told in music", he received a Grammy Award nomination for this 1990 album featuring a performance from David Crosby and Graham Nash.
Michael Hedges described Taproot as an "autobiographical myth told in music". The album showed a departure from the solo guitar that made him famous and a move towards ensemble pieces. Taproot served to showcase Hedges' technical prowess and his ear for lush polyphony. The album's closing track is the lone vocal - a spellbinding setting of poem by e. e. cummings with soaring background vocals from his friends David Crosby and Graham Nash.
It received a nomination for Best New Age Album in the 1991 Grammy Awards and spent 22 weeks on the Billboard New Age Albums charts. Unavailable and out-of-print for some time now, it is Valley Entertainment's extreme pleasure to help keep the work of Michael's tragically short career alive.
Tracklist
1. The Naked Stalk 1:43
2. The Jealous Tunnel/About Face 4:20
3. The Jade Stalk 3:55
4. Nomad Land 1:54
5. Point A 1:33
6. Chava's Song 3:14
7. Ritual Dance 2:17
8. Scenes (On The Road To Shrub 2) 4:23
9. The First Cutting 3:02
10. Point B 1:57
11. Song Of The Spirit Farmer 4:45
12. The Rootwitch 2:29
13. I Carry Your Heart 4:55
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