Song For America

An amazing acoustic guitarist from Denver, Ted Reece won the 1996 National Guitar Workshop composition award, Employing alternate tunings and standard tuning on his debut Song For America, the CD crosses a variety of acoustic guitar styles. Reece 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. The CD offers pretty ballads as well as a Kottke-ish slide number, as the music peaks the interest of the listener with fascinating picking and strumming. 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.