Album Notes

I'm Allen James Teague - I write my music along the water near where Idaho meets Washington and Canada. These pieces were recorded on the grand piano at the Cutter Theater in Metaline Falls, Washington. I hope you enjoy as much as I enjoyed writing and recording them!Inspiration for the ideas within the piano pieces in this collection came at my Grandmothers home in the countryside near Esko, Minnesota. During adventures in Minnesota, Arizona, Alaska and Idaho with my childhood best friend (an English Setter) Razz. In the forests and along the water at Priest Lake in Idaho. In Autumn on the outskirts of Tower, Minnesota with the raspy calling of tree perched crows. At the ruins of Castle Dunnottar in mid September when you can hear things from long ago. Walking along the heather covered dunes at Findhorn to the sound of the north sea. Walking home in the rain from Kells, Cafe Paradiso or the Baltic Room in Seattle after closing with my black notebook. Sledding under the stars in winter on a hillside in north eastern Washington. Just past the raspberries and burnt stump of a tree on the north east edge of Loch Ness near where the crooked red trees grow among rocky outcroppings. On a bridge in Duluth during a warm night in June. Flying over Greenland and gazing at those giant ice cubes floating out there in the water. Feeding rather large seagulls on a ferryboat crossing the English Channel. Fishing at Jewel Lake, Anderson Lake and Blanchard lake in Idaho. Fishing at Birch Lake in Minnesota. Canoeing in the Boundary Waters outside of Ely, Minnesota. Collecting shark teeth on the beach outside of Fort Augustine in Florida. Floating in the salty water at Cedar Key. Netting crabs and catching sharks on a pier in the middle of town at midnight in Port Townsend, Washington. On the Karlov Most, at the Miro Gallery and wandering the cobblestone streets in Prague. Visiting Pan in Hyde Park. Watching hundreds of caribou stream across the muskeg near Fairbanks. Star gazing while walking on winter nights in northern Minnesota. And over countless cups of coffee in many places while writing in notebooks, on beer mats, on receipts and in newspaper margins.