

Michael Hughes, Auburn, Maine. Original acoustic & electric music.
I worked as a musician for about ten years after I finished my BA in English lit, which didn't sound nearly as interesting at the time as playing music. After an enjoyable but wasted youth of bands, solo & studio work, ten thousand nights in clubs & lots of touring, three albums with David Mallett, and a few years as a music journalist and free lance editor, I saw the writing on the wall. I said goodbye to all that & began teaching high school English & started building my project studio.
It seems like I've been interested in recording music since I began playing the guitar back in grade school. From a cheap portable cassette tape recorder up through four track cassette "portastudios" and then reel-to-reel rigs to my first encounter with digital recording around 2000, I've always enjoyed trying to lay down sound. Some of the music up on my page was recorded on my first digital system (a Roland VS-1680), and some was recorded on my current system. So, as much as anything else, I'm interested in the art & science of making good sounding recordings.
I write original music and do arrangements of music from a variety of sources. I'm trying to get at an emotional vibe and that elusive buzz with each recording, a core that I hope comes through in the sound of the instruments & the way I play.
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Michael Bennett
Mar 30, 2012
Beautiful and Nashville tuning :D
Carlos Carranza
Jan 05, 2010
Music Music Music.....Love acoustic music..
Roger John
Jul 28, 2009
Great guitar playing , your whole emotion comes out in those strings. Very moving! Theres a tear in my eye!
Daniel Eboli
Jul 13, 2009
Beautifuull!
Cheers!
Larry Ludwick
Jul 11, 2009
It's a shame that great losses produce the most emotionally connected music. Classic, haunting and, of course, Elegiac.
Susan Raines
Jul 11, 2009
Hi Michael
I whole heartedly agree with Jen. It's absolutely brilliant..
The Unwashed and Dazed
Jul 10, 2009
What a really haunting piece. The tones of the instruments come through really well.
Jennifer Pearl
Jul 09, 2009
Michael, this is unbelievably gut wrenchingly beautiful...I'm on my third listen! Amazing, my friend...simply amazing. Thanks so much for the wonderful comment on Sideways a while back, as well as the guitar mic tips.
Hi Mike, it is good to hear your beautiful piece for our old friend, whom you introduced me to so long ago. Maybe we can jam sometime?