Acoustic Portraits by Rich Troxler

This album shows the softer side of my guitar playing. I became interested in finger style acoustic guitar playing a couple decades ago and spent some time learning some techniques and writing some songs. Precious few were actually recorded and many more have simply been lost to time. These songs were recorded somewhere around 15 years ago or so. Some have very special meaning to me, which is why I took the time to fire up the DAW to record them. They were all played on an Ibanez acoustic guitar, but aside from the tunings, five of the songs have a completely different tonal quality than the other two. Tech talk. This is because the Ibanez has a build-in pickup in the bridge, and I had another pickup that fits across the sound hole, so I ran the two pickups into two different amps and effects processing, throwing the pickups out of phase, and came up with a sound that reminded me of a hammered dulcimer, an instrument who’s sound I enjoy. The album itself is very relaxing and I hope you enjoy it.

All songs written, performed & recorded by Rich Troxler
(c) 2024 All Rights Reserved

Tracklist

1.	Chrystal's Song	4:38

2.	Memories	6:05

3.	Thoughts Of Home	5:20

4.	Dreamland	5:45

5.	Mary Had A Little Lamb	0:36

6.	A Final Goodbye	5:23

7.	The Revealing	6:52

8.	Deer Lake	4:13

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released September 2, 2024

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