author: Lauri Syring McMullen
I love this CD. the music is outstanding and Ted is an incredible guitarist. I've listened to his music all my life. I especially like #6 El Paisano that is my favorite song. I grew up with him and have always enjoyed listening to him play.
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Song for America is a must have collection for any acoustic guitar lover!
author: Clyde Mencke
Do you enjoy the stylistic character of artists such as John Renbourn, Leo Kottke, John Fahey, and Alex DeGrassi? Then you will love this CD! One of those remarkable collections where every tune throws an impression of beauty, power, and energy into motion! This music will grab your ear. Incredible!
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"Mind blowing fingerstyle technique
author: Dirty Linen
Suggesting a guitarist is in the league of a Michael Hedges or other string idols is always subject to debate, but Colorado
guitarist Ted Reece certainly has the tools to captivate his listeners. Reece's mind blowing fingerstyle technique not only demonstrates
the guitar's dynamic range and extensive capabilities, it also
avoids the overly technical sterility fingerstyle guitarists
are prone to. He uses a left handed, over-the-neck Preston Reed
style of tapping where flourishes of chords are struck at a
blitzing pace, interspersed with quick tapping along the neck as well as the guitar's body.
At times, Mr. Reece snaps the low strings as if he were
playing bass ina funk band. The melodic instrumental originals ("Temporal Groove," "El Paisano")
leave lots to the imagination but they, like Reece's masterful playing
are firmly grounded in solid concepts. Here, hearing is believing (DW)
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"Song For America" is solo independent fingerstyle guitar at its best.
author: Minor 7th
Sometimes an unexpected combination of chords or a certain sympathy with the fretboard raises goosebumps, irrespective of the
technical ability of the guitarist. The "goosebump index" of Ted Reece’s "Song For America" is off the meter, as is his ability.
Reece obviously owes a debt of influence to Michael Hedges and Preston Reed as evidenced by his slapstyle on "Temporal
Groove" and "Rock the World Gently". But Ted Reece is a versatile player and I hear influences from a multitude of styles. His
solo fingerstyle on "Bondy’s Pastures" nearly conjures aural images of a bluegrass band featuring fiddlers playing along if I strain
my imagination. There are pretty ballads such as "El Paisano" and "Broken Arrow". There’s a Kottke-esque rag on slide guitar,
"Where Does that Leave Me?". The tune "Celtic Dances" actually sounds to my ear more like a Spanish jazz, fired out with
pizzicato flatpicking, and which magically morphs via Reece’s wizardry into a boogie blues riff. "Song For America" is solo
independent fingerstyle guitar at its best.
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