Tom Dionne
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Pure Solo Fingerstyle Guitar
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Michigan fingerstylist Thomas Dionne submitted his 1999, all instrumental, fingerstyle guitar CD What The Heart Knows, a soulful acoustic recording delivered straight from the heart of the artist. The bluesy "Carmen L. Lucky" is a delightful inclusion on Dionne's CD, which overall, contains sufficient stylistic variety to maintain listener interest from beginning to end. The strings seem to speak on tracks such as "Halibut Madness", from its harmonic, almost harp-like opening to its reflective and cinematic verses. Perhaps a soundtrack for life in Northern Michigan, or simply good music in its own right; in either case, fans of evocative fingerstyle guitar should give Dionne's CD careful consideration.
Thomas has been playing music since he was a teenager in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Starting on an old Stella guitar and a Mel Bay chord book, he began playing along with old Kingston Trio, The Brothers Four, Ian and Sylvia and Tom Rush records. He later began playing out all around Southern Michigan. Thomas then taught himself to read music and studied music theory. Influenced by players such as Ry Cooder, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, Leo Kottke and Stefan Grossman, he gradually developed an interest in instrumental guitar and decided to focus on fingerstyle.
Dionne plays live often now, and hopes to retire from his day job soon, to concentrate on his music and to record and release more CDs.
Contact Information
Thomas Dionne
138 Rivershore Rd.
Elk Rapids, MI 49629
United States
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Tom Dionne
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Craig Mauro
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Spacey Jam Rock
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Shadows In Light is guitarist Craig Mauro's second full length CD, filled with a wide range of instrumental rock guitar settings. The CD maintains a kind of 'space rock' feel throughout the various pieces, probably because of the heavy use of delay and the guitar tone, which sounds as if the Boss effects Mauro favors were recorded direct to the board (i.e. creating a 'super' overdriven quality to the tone). Softer tracks such as "Hourglass" change the mood from the heavy, biting guitar found in "Above All Limits" and the title track. The only area we'd love to see improved is the string bending -- some of the quarter-tone or half-tone bends don't quite meet their target, while other bends up to non-key notes sound out of place. Mauro strikes us as a dedicated axeman, and he is probably going to continue to improve quickly.
Craig, from the Bronx, NewYork, has been playing guitar for seven years, while working on all original instrumental music. His influences range from Joe Satriani, Metallica and Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Craig's first CD was entitled "Variety Of Experiences" and featured ten instrumental compositions with grooves that swam like the ebb and flow of the tides. It's remarkable that with such a reletively short time on the instrument that Craig has applied himself so fiercely to recording his music, but that shows the determination of this confident young man.
Mauro's musical goals include making music that many people can listen to, while delivering a great variety of sounds.
Contact Information
Craig Mauro
3215 Griswold Avenue
Bronx, NY 10465
United States
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Craig Mauro
Web site:
www.craigmauro.iuma.com
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