Song For America
Ted Reece
© Copyright-Ted Reece
(742187505120)
Record Label: Avant Acoustic
SPECIAL: 10% discount if you buy more than one copy of it today!
No items available in your wishlist
Label- Avant Acoustic
Ted Reece has a new CD here at CD Baby, http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reece2
Employing alternate tunings and standard tuning, "Song For America" crosses a variety of acoustic guitar styles. There are pretty ballads as well as a Kottke-ish slide number. Always melodic, and performed with a great amount of feeling, "Song For America" will satisfy the listener that enjoys hearing interesting techniques on the guitar. Ted Reece began playing guitar at age six. After many bands, awards, and receiving a music degree in guitar performance, Ted Reece returned to his first love, American finger style guitar. His guitar playing is melodic, yet full of innovative picking and strumming. Engrossing audiences whenever he plays, Ted is a fresh alternative to the often sterile and overly technical guitarist.
Reviews of the CD "Song For America"
"Ted Reece reminds me of that kid down the street that could just hammer that acoustic guitar with reckless abandon, yet with a mature style that hits me to the core.
'Song for America' is just that: a compilation of various styles and hues from the plains of Nebraska to the high peaks of the Appalachians.
Ted Reece peaks the interest of the listener with fascinating picking and strumming". (Above review by broadcast.com)
"A delightful, original, acoustical treat" (Yahoo Broadcast)
"If you're an acoustic guitar lover, you can't go wrong with this disc" (Music Views)
"Mind-blowing fingerstyle technique".....
Dirty Linen
Linen Shorts
issue#91
December 2000/January 2001
Read more...
Please
log in to review the album.
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.
Read more...
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!
Read more...
"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)
Read more...
"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.
Read more...