Breakfast in the Field

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Breakfast in the Field
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Studio album by
Released1981
RecordedThe Music Annex, Menlo Park, CA
Genre New-age, world [ citation needed ]
Length33:43
Label Windham Hill
Producer Will Ackerman
Michael Hedges chronology
Breakfast in the Field
(1981)
Aerial Boundaries
(1984)

Breakfast in the Field is the debut recording by guitarist Michael Hedges released on the Windham Hill label in 1981. It was recorded live to 2-track, with no overdubs.

Contents

According to the album's liner notes, Hedges composed and recorded "Eleven Small Roaches", "Baby Toes" and "Two Days Old" on a six-string guitar built in 1978 by Ken DuBourg of Arbutus, Maryland. [1] The remaining tracks were recorded using a guitar made by Ervin Somogyi.

Reception

Professional ratings
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Music critic Jason Anderson, writing for Allmusic, wrote of the album "Hedges' compositional abilities alone would have been enough to mesmerize musicians and audiophiles, but his added improvisational skills put this recording way over the top both technically and artistically... While Hedges' follow-up, Aerial Boundaries, is often described as the guitarist's masterpiece, Breakfast in the Field has an early career spark and meditative yet passionate conviction that can't be surpassed.." [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Michael Hedges.

  1. "Layover" – 2:32
  2. "The Happy Couple" – 3:23
  3. "Eleven Small Roaches" – 3:01
  4. "The Funky Avocado" – 2:05
  5. "Baby Toes" – 2:12
  6. "Breakfast in the Field" – 2:23
  7. "Two Days Old" – 4:44
  8. "Peg Leg Speed King" – 3:20
  9. "The Unexpected Visitor" – 2:49
  10. "Silent Anticipations" – 3:19
  11. "Lenono" – 3:55

Personnel

Production notes

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References

  1. Curran, Buck (July 2005). "Great Acoustics: Michael Hedges' 1978 Ken duBourg". Acoustic Guitar. 16 (1): 130.
  2. 1 2 Anderson, Jason. "Breakfast in the Field > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved January 14, 2017.