''Steve Tibbetts'' is the debut album by

Steve Tibbetts Steve Tibbetts (born 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. He views the recording studio as a tool for creating sounds. Most of his albums include percussionist Marc Anderson. Style Tibbetts plays acoustic and electric guitar and exoti ...

, recorded in 1976. Eventually released by Frammis Records in 1979, the CD was reissued by Cuneiform in 1995.

Critical reception

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'' wrote that Tibbets "uses a few too many cliches, utproves that he has the talent to make those cliches work." ''The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music'' called the album "a classic of instrumental psychedelic progressive music from the unlikely region of grassroots middle America."

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Tibbetts #"Sunrise" - 4:14 #"The Secret" - 4:49 #"Desert" - 4:39 #"The Wonderful Day" - 2:20 #"Gong" - 1:43 #"Jungle Rhythm" - 5:37 #"Interlude" - 1:52 #"Alvin Goes to Tibet" - 4:16 #"How Do You Like My Buddha?" - 5:06

Personnel

- Instruments, tape effects, vocals and engineering *Tim Weinhold -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

*First released on Frammis Records 1977 *Photo by Walter Goldstein *Art by Frammis Reissue *CD Mastering by SAE Digital Mastering *CD Graphic Production by Paula Millett *Reissue coordination by Steve Feigenbaum

References

External links

Cuneiform Bio for re-release of “First Album”Steve Tibbetts at Discogs
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