Jim Earp has been raved about in Guitar Player magazine and other havens for the faithful. His chosen weapon is a simple six-string acoustic guitar. His Method is "Fingerstyle", a specific flavor of acoustic instrumentalist that combines melodic song structure with delicately articulated individual notes. Chords provide the background overtones while the fingers blaze in various patterns and inversions creating layer upon layer of rhythmic and melodic bliss. Sometimes the music takes on a Celtic flavor, other times a romantic sound, and still others a Spanish flair. Unlike most instrumental acoustic music, this is not just background music. The song structures have beginnings, bridges, interludes, climaxes and endings. At times sounding like a soundtrack, at others like a snippet from some song you're sure is a classical number you just can't identify, but throughout it is overwhelmingly satisfying.