I recorded the album in the closet of a rented room in La Puente, CA as a gift for family and friends. Soon after it topped the Holiday charts on Airplay Direct in Nashville several times as the #1 download to radio stations around the world. I hope you enjoy my playing, which always comes from my heart to yours.

12 Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Toy broken

JINGLE AT CHRISTMAS

Featuring Jake Smith reading 1984

There's no escape from the telescreen. Or is there? Learn here how WiFi sees you. 

https://youtu.be/-hL0eiJu9SE?si=uvdF5mTugL5t4wPj

From The Age Of Solitude

It always amazes me how a collaboration can change the whole feeling of a song. Such is the case when Cloud artist Devin Locke reached out to me to collaborate.  I sent him a tune I had been working on, but would not necessarily stand on it's own.  What he did with his fine playing, getting inside the basic melody, bringing out the possibilities, reminded me of the playing of Django Reinhardt and helped me hear the song in a whole new light.  For more of Devin's fine playing check out  soundcloud.com/devin-locke.  To hear a wonderful vocal version of this song, check out: @myckael-marcovic/si-django-avait-joue

Conversation At A French Cafe (with fine guitarist Devin Locke)

Taking a walk on mild summer evenings my eyes always get caught by the treetop silhouettes. I think it's the contrast to the slightly illuminated sky that's pleasing for the eye. Also, their gentle movements in the wind and the white noise are soothing. Because the treetops are completely dark, they have a mysterious aura. I wanted to capture this.
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Thanks to Glenn Carstens-Peters for the original photo on unsplash.com:
https://unsplash.com/photos/dMX-4Lv0k7I

Treetop Silhouettes

Baumkronensilhouetten (Treetop Silhouettes)

Image: pixabay.com (CC0 Creative Commons)

Different steps

Joe Hill, Swedish emigrant, songwriter, working class hero, was the inspiration behind this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tnCcqcICcY&t=1s

A poll released on August 16th found that nearly half of Americans who support Biden plan to vote by mail rather than in person on election day, compared with just one in ten backers of Trump.

Big thank you to https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein for his beautiful raw playing that takes this song from its humble ‘rural’ beginnings into big ‘city’ overdrive. And to Yaron Engler for his deft drum programming.

No letter in the post for Joe
No letter in the post for Joe
Where’s that vote
In an envelope
No letter in the post for Joe

He needs that letter to make things better 
Why’s it so damn slow
Don’t stop clapping
Until it happens
No  letter in the post for Joe  
      
Click, snap, a letter box flap
Tell me yes or no? 
If that my vote
In an envelope
That’s all I need to know
Or I tell you Joe might blow

No Letter In The Post For Joe (ft. Jonathan Beckenstein)

A little upbeat offering for the Autumn season.  Not long before we "fall back" an hour with the time change in a year that has seen so many changes and challenges.

Fall Back

Einheit - Rock Flexible
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Some music.
Started this a while ago.
Finished it today.
So I have empty space on my HD for new projects.
The stop at the end was planned :)
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(2020) Rock Flexible
>> Last Update v2 2020-11-15

Einheit - Rock Flexible

The first song Frank and I ever learned and performed together. Done as a gift to my buddy Dave. I can't remember if it was his birthday, or a New Year's present. Late Christmas? Who knows. But this was back before we had a SoundCloud, or a Facebook page, or anything even remotely resembling a DAW. Just us, in a room, with a chirping smoke detector. Hope you enjoy the very first HinTTrack.

Adaptation: Foo Fighters - Home

I am a finger-style guitarist living on the Texas high plains.  At the core of my music is melody that is inspired and informed by my Christian faith, family, friends, and countless influences through the years from the great composers, to jazz, folk, rock, Latin, Celtic, and the many fine musicians I have come to love on the Cloud, some I have been privileged to collaborate with.  Thanks for stopping by to have a listen. Comments are always welcome. Feel free to click on the picture of any track to learn more about it.

Fall Back

David Dunham