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Torched (album)

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Released
  
Feb 9, 1999

Artist
  
Michael Hedges

Label
  
Windham Hill Records

Recorded
  
1994-1997

Release date
  
9 February 1999


Genres
  
New-age music, World music

Similar
  
Watching My Life Go By, Oracle, Live on the Double Planet, Taproot, Breakfast in the Field

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Torched is the recording guitarist Michael Hedges was working on at the time of his fatal automobile accident in 1997. It was released posthumously in 1999 on the Windham Hill label.

Contents

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Reception

Music critic Jason Anderson, writing for Allmusic, wrote the album "In this raw format, the rock influences of Hedges' youth appear most notably in vocal phrasings that are more expressive, almost aggressive at times."

Track listing

All compositions by Michael Hedges.

  1. "Torched" – 4:51
  2. "Spring Buds" – 4:20
  3. "Fusion of the Five Elements" – 3:59
  4. "Promised Land" – 3:52
  5. "Phoenix Fire" – 3:40
  6. "Dream Beach" – 3:51
  7. "Arrowhead" – 2:17
  8. "Shell Shock Venus" – 4:14
  9. "Ursa Major" – 3:45
  10. "Free Swinging Soul" – 4:19
  11. "Rough Wind in Oklahoma" – 4:18
  12. "Sapphire" – 3:48
  13. "Gospel of Mary/The Holy Flame" – 5:34
  14. "Java Man" – 3:44
  15. "Coda: Free Swinging Soul (Live At Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, Colorado - October 16, 1994)" – 5:29

Personnel

  • Michael Hedges – acoustic guitars, bass, harp-guitar, synthesizers, alto flute, melodeon, percussion, and vocals
  • Michael Manring – fretless bass
  • David Crosby – backing vocals on "Spring Buds"
  • Graham Nash – backing vocals on "Spring Buds"

    • Songs

    1Torched4:52
    2Spring Buds4:21
    3Fusion of the Five Elements4:00

    References

    Torched (album) Wikipedia
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