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If Only
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Solo Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar. CGDGBC tuning. Reflective, evocative, Progressive Acoustic.
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Steven Dillon
Steven Dillon
First Of All
Sat May 14, 2005
Acoustic : Acoustic Guitar
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» highest in charts:   # 631   (126,940 songs currently listed in Acoustic)
» highest in sub-genre:   # 172   (24,069 songs currently listed in Acoustic > Acoustic Guitar)
» today's position: # 4109 in Acoustic
» today's position in sub-genre: # 1047 in Acoustic Guitar
About the song
This is only tribute song to Michael Hedges that I have written to date. Following a very stressful, frustrating day at work, I wanted/needed to get lost in my music for a while once I got home. I believe that Michael's influence played a considerable part in the song's inception because I had been so smitten with the sounds and feelings in "Rickover's Dream". I must have listened to that song a hundred times, and I even fell asleep with it coming through my headphones the night before I started writing this. "If only" is a question we often ask ourselves, and while I was composing, I was thinking of Michael as well as what would have happened in my life if I hadn't ever quit playing.

All my songs are essentially live. They are recorded in one take and no studio tricks (like punch-ins, overdubbing, or cut and paste) were used.