Surrounded (lost-&-found home recording #10)

May 07, 2024

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**. . . continued from** **Redemption (lost-&-found home recording #9)**

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	This initial draft of Surrounded is from October 2012. It was plucked on a nylon guitar in a small room by an insomniac, stated in the scratch lyrics, “cast to the dawn.”

It was the in-between hours & I was trying to be quiet & just get a simple rough of a picking pattern.

Surrounded is one of a trio of songs that came at once with this no-name nylon guitar I found around that time at a nearby thrift store.

**I also used the no-name for an instrumental recording of** **Beautiful Question.**

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The final version, which appears on the 2013 album Surrounded, was recorded a few months later with most of the scratch intact, but none of the no-name. 

It’s on the set list for the this year's Acoustic Living Room Shows.

**Surrounded (lost-&-found home recording #10):**

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