Spring Garden Bandstand

by Mike T. Kerr

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NTRMN90 Three Whole Years alone is worth the price of admission, everything else is just icing on the cake. Excellent instrumental album from one of the best bluegrass/jazz fusion guitarists out there. Favorite track: Three Whole Years.

folkiefarmerjon Mike is one of the greatest guitar players I've ever heard and he makes virtuosity sound fun and easy.

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1.	Spring Garden Bandstand 02:49	buy track
2.	Rusty Red Racer 02:21
3.	It Had to be You 03:49
4.	Mason School for the Blind 02:23
5.	Space for Spencer 00:57
6.	Grampy 02:33
7.	Three Whole Years 03:21
8.	Peacekeeper's March 03:15
9.	Glory River 02:05
10.	It Had to be You (Alternate Take) 03:39
11.	Rusty Red Racer (Alternate Take) 01:53

about

This album has taken quite a journey already just to get this far, I am so excited to see it through to arriving at your front door. It's journey started just like my first album's journey, though: I asked Dylan Jewers to come to New Scotland Yard with me, we got Thomas Stajcer on the console, and started pulling guitars and amps off the wall.

If you would like this solo guitar album on vinyl, please order that here, having an idea of the numbers ahead of time will really help me get organized and get this sweet little record in your hands. The vinyl master has been prepared by Jamie Sitar, one of the best to play the game, and I'm so excited for my first vinyl release!

Before going into the studio, I came up with the idea to highlight a Maritime guitar player on this solo album, kind of like a feature. The idea was just to bring them in on a tune or two, collaborate, improvise, and have that outside voice shine through a bit. Making a list of possibilities was no issue, guitar in the Maritimes is a rich tradition and a heady hall of fame. After brooding over which direction to go in with this idea though, a name I hadn't written down yet jumped out and immediately made the most sense of any of them.. Terra Spencer. Having her colourful and sentimental playing in the middle of this album brings so much joy to me and this whole project. As this became more and more a musical tribute to my grandfather Dan Leeman, it features a composition of his "the Peacekeeper's March," Terra offered her own tribute to her guitar-slinging grandfather with her tune 'Grampy," the only tune on the album featuring two guitars.

Thank you to all the early supporters and listeners who have encouraged the growth of this album.
It's a privilege to share my music with all of you.

credits

released September 26, 2020

All guitars played by Mike T. Kerr except:
Track 5: Terra Spencer Track 6: Terra Spencer and Mike T. Kerr

Recorded by Thomas Stajcer at New Scotland Yard studio, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia December 2019

Additional recording by Mike T. Kerr in the Quest Room, Toronto, Ontario
May-June 2020

Mixed by Mike T. Kerr

Mastered by Jamie Sitar

All songs written and arranged by Mike T. Kerr, except:
Tracks 5, 6: Written by Terra Spencer
Tracks 3, 10: Written by Isham Jones
Track 8: Written by Dan Leeman
Track 9: Written by Rev. Gary Davis

Design by Andy Wright
Bandstand photo by Zack MacGregor

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Mike T. Kerr Toronto, Ontario

Mike T. Kerr is a lifelong student of the guitar. His first album features 7 original Country songs and 3 instrumentals. His brand new album Spring Garden Bandstand is fully instrumental. Always curious to dig up not only a song's history, but the shape of the world at the time, Mike plays passionately and openly while interpreting the great guitar players of the past. ... more

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