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Tao of Healing
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This song features Michael on classical guitar; the theme itself is about reconciliation and forgiveness.
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The joedai warriors features original introspective folk-rock songs by Joe Peters and the phenomenal musicianship of Michael Kelsey, 2004 Winner of Guitar Cente
The joedai warriors is a musical collaboration between me (singer-songwriter Joe Peters) and musician extraordinaire Michael Kelsey, 2004 winner of Guitar Center's National "Guitarmageddon" Competition for best unsigned guitarist in America. We first collaborated on 1998's "Given Birth," an independent CD release that features 13 of my songs that describe a variety of inner and outer experiences of life in the US and abroad. We have recently gone back into the studio to work on a follow-up album, "Rebirth," which was just released on December 11, 2004. While I play acoustic guitar and sing, Michael also sings backup and plays acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, bass, keyboards, mandolin, and percussion (to name but a few).
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Rock Folk Rock
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Peak #364
Peak in subgenre #29
Author
Joe Peters
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Joe Peters
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October 11, 2004
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MP3 4.1 MB 128 kbps 0:00
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I had some friends who were having troubles in their inter-personal relationships, and was trying to mediate a solution and promote reconciliation between them. At the time, I was also reading a book entitled The Tao of Healing. I was due to go into the recording studio with Mike the next day, and the evening before I called to tell him I had this sort of Spanish-sounding melody in mind for an instrumental piece. But before the end of the night, the lyrics just came to me, insprired by the book and the experience I was going through, and so when I showed up at the studio Mike was dismayed that I had a song instead of an instrumental, cause he had gone out that day and bought a classical guitar thinking it would be perfect for the tune I had described to him. Well, I said, make it into as much of an instrumental as you want, and just run with it, and I'll sing my song over it. It's been well received. A quilter named Gloria Klutzky made a lovely quilt to go with the song for the first Sparks Across the Arts exhibit in Lafayette, IN in 2002.
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