Motive Force, by North Carolina guitarist Franklin Moore, is a collection of instrumental songs for solo guitar blending a variety of musical influences using fingerstyle and two-handed techniques. In essence, it is music expressing one man's view of the world. Moore, who is entirely self-taught, began playing acoustic guitar at age 13, cutting his chops by learning songs out of books and off records, writing his own material at age 16. It wasn't until he heard Michael Hedges that he knew his musical calling was to play solo instrumental guitar. His music is a genre-defying blend of rock, jazz, classical, blues, country, folk and world music played on a steel-string guitar. Moore states, "My music is a subconscious amalgamation of everything I have ever heard, felt or experienced," and just one listen will convince you of the truth of his statement. Strongly grounded in both rhythm and melody, it avoids the formless arpeggiation typical of much solo guitar music. Rather, Moore seamlessly combines fingerstyle, two-handed tapping, power strumming, and single-note runs into an unconventional yet highly accessible approach that is both excitingly original and strangely familiar at the same time. Instrumental Guitar (Acoustic/Rock/Fingerstyle), total running time, 57:45 - Franklin Moore @ iTunes!