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Bret Hart: guitars, electronics
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Fender 'Montara' ac/el guitar
BOSS BR8 digital recording platform

This instant song is an example of what I have been calling 'structured melodic improvisation', whereby I lay a foundation (pre-structure) by improvising a rhythm guitar figure (after jamming on it for a few minutes) to tape. All subsequent overdubs are unrehearsed and unedited. Bass-like sounds are drop-octaved acoustic guitar. Signal processing is courtesy of the Roland FX suite present in the recording deck.

'Token Yankee' is a favorite working of a familiar Blues/Rockabilly/Country 1-4-5 progression that hundreds of Pop songs have utilized. Over the foundational strum, you will hear nods to a host of song-oriented guitarists I have come to admire over the 40 years I've been learning the instrument: JJ Cale, Mark Knopfler, Clarence White, Vince Gill, Roy Buchanan, Billy Bremner, Dave Edmunds, and others. I guess that's why I like this piece so much, it honors my guitar heroes.

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from Bret Hart: TOKEN YANKEE [2008] digital, released August 26, 2017

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Bret H. Hart Eden, North Carolina

Bret Hart is a musician, artist, and child of God living in North Carolina.
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