I recorded these songs in 1982 and then published this collection (Stanton Hirsch Solo Acoustic Guitar 1984) once I had a few more bucks together. These were songs I wrote in the late 70's and very early 80's. Fourteen of them made the album (that's all I could fit) but I had 28 finished compositions. There are short sections of improvisation here and there and in my "live" versions there was a lot, but I had put in so much time working with the songs, composing them, that I wanted the recordings to be centered around the "written" parts. All 28 songs were recorded in one 2 hour session. (Including mike set up etc...) Just once thru on each song. ("Live playing") There was not editing punching out the "bad" notes and punching in the "right" ones.(etc...) So everything is not perfect like you will get with most modern recording and editing methods.  

I was making a living at the time playing all other kinds of music, so this was really just a "non-commercial" artistic act of love. These are probably my "best" serious ("Non-commercial, non-pop mass entertainment") works.  

(*2018 note: This was 34 years ago when I was 34 years old. Listening back on the quality of the compositions and the guitar playing technique I realize how much time I must have put into this project.)  

I performed the music here and there in very small concert settings between my $ making gigs, sold out the few hundred cassettes I made ,you know how it goes...Luckily things went way uphill from here! (As far as figuring out the $ making thing.) The "art" part still stayed around, but the music I started working on was more involved with entertainment value also.  

Anyhow, being very naive about what the music business was really about, I shopped the tape to the labels (There were mostly only big ones back then, and there was no other way to really get your stuff out there without a label deal.) I thought well...maybe people were looking for new compositions, different styles, whatever?  

Thinking back on it now, thirty something years later, I am amazed that I could just send them a copy and they would actually get back to me! Some of them even listened to it --(but all of them passed on it. --Oh Well...)  

Anyhow, I found an envelope with all these rejection letters and thought since I don't have any reviews, I would put those up here. Hope you get a kick out of em'---I sure did! Of course back then I was a bit disappointed. (I have no idea what I was thinking!)