Live at the Musical Instrument Museum

Here’s a song from one of my performances at the MIM in Phoenix, AZ called, Blue Whales Flying. I absolutely love to play on this stage. It’s played on my my new Lakewood M32 Custom acoustic guitar. The tuning is: C-G-D-F#-A#-D#. The clarity and acoustics of the venue are astounding and it’s a spiritual experience every time I walk out that stage door, to the audience. I wrote this while watching a documentary on ocean life. There were blue whales gracefully soaring through the water. I turned the volume down on the TV and started playing to the choreography of their underwater ballet. I hope you enjoy.

Inspired by a swimming hole some friends and I used to make the trek to in college. You had to make a dangerous jaunt through a train tunnel and you didn’t want to hear that train coming if you were in the middle of the tunnel! The backbeat is the chugging of the train and that cascading descending lick off the IV reminds me of jumping in the water. Played live at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, July 17th, 2021. Lakewood M32 Custom tuned DADGAD. From the CD, Finding Time by Bill Dutcher. Copyright 2009 WSD III Inc. Productions