Album Of The Day: Acoustic Sketches by Phil Keaggy

Album Art of Phil Keaggy's Acoustic Sketches album - The artwork is based on a black-and-white photo of Phil Keaggy playing an acoustic guitar. The original picture is shown in the area of his face and both left and right hands. But the rest of the photo is altered to be a light brown background, and what looks like the edges of the whole photo of him playing is embossed in the brown. In the top towards the right, there is a black box that says the artist name in smaller red text on the top and bottom, and the album title in larger, yellow text in the middle.

Released 30 years ago sometime this month to the Phil Keaggy Club and re-released a few years later on Sparrow Records, this is the fourth instrumental album by Phil Keaggy by my counting. It's an hour of Phil Keaggy playing beautiful instrumental acoustic guitar in a studio, sometimes a short composition and sometimes longer. Often there's a few layers of guitars on top of each other, but sometimes it's just solo guitar, and sometimes a few other instruments are playing along too. And at least once you hear a guitar recording being played backwards for a unique sound too. After a listen to this, you will probably be convinced that Phil Keaggy is a guitar master as he coaxes so many different, beautiful sounds out of the instrument. This album is a beautiful series of instrumentals that I never tire listening to. It looks like the streaming version is a bit of a "Deluxe" version and includes 4 bonus tracks that I'm not sure even I've listened to yet, but the original 19 tracks are what I have on CD.

Release Year: 1996
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