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Steve Hunter talks about the music on his CD Hymns For Guitar, "When I was a very little boy my grandmother would occasionally take me to Sunday church with her. One thing I always enjoyed was the sound of all those people gently and quietly singing those old beautiful hymns. I always loved feeling surrounded by that warm, peaceful sound, and hearing all those lovely old melodies. Many, many years later I did an acoustic guitar arrangement of one of those old hymns, one called "Softly And Tenderly". Everyone I played it for seemed to really love it and responded to it in a similar way I did when I was a child in church. Friends started suggesting I do an entire CD of things like that. including my producer friend Bob Ezrin who was the guy I did all the work with in the '70s . And that's how this new CD was born. All the songs are my acoustic guitar arrangements of some of my all time favorite old American hymns. Many of these great old melodies were written in the mid 1800s. The arrangements are a variety of solo guitar pieces as well as multi-track pieces. My main goal was to try to create that warm, peaceful sound with acoustic guitars that I had heard as a boy in church." Instrumental Guitar (Acoustic/Fingerstyle), total running time, 41:02
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