ALBUM:
Among Trees
TAYLOR USED:
510
815-CE
SONG CLIPS:
By Lantern Light
28k | 56K
Dream Song for a Walk on a Sunset
28k | 56K
CONTACT INFO:
230 New Salem Road
Wendell,
MA 01379-9707
To order from CD Baby:
800-448-6369
E-mail:
doughty @mit .edu
Web:
www. fdoughty .com
www. cdbaby .com/ doughty
www. folkweb .com/ francis doughty/
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Francis Doughty has been playing acoustic guitar since he was 17, but only three years ago decided to "stop hiding his light under a bushel basket" and
perform live. His supple fingerstyle folk is inspired by John Fahey, Ed Gerhard, and Leo Kottke, but perhaps even more by the bucolic "homesteading"
lifestyle that he says "keeps him in the vegetable gardens or the woodsheds for some portion of every day." Doughty's debut album of instrumentals,
Among Trees, is aptly titled; his honeydew melodies unfold in an unhurried, halcyon pace that caresses the senses and suggests a Walden-esque setting ungoverned by clocks.
Doughty studied classical composition at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and credits his grounding in the classical tradition for his sense of musical structure. Of his 510 and 815-CE, which yield warm, rich, clear, organic tones, Doughty says: "These guitars sing, and have truly been the inspiration for me to put out my debut CD and perform in public.
"I'm hopelessly addicted to this instrument," he confesses of his passion for guitar. "I fish around a lot on it, and every now and then I get rewarded by something surprising and pleasing, in the way that it describes something that's real to me. There's a necessity to playing the guitar that would be impossible to overcome. It's part of me; part of my language."
"Francis Doughty paints pictures of New England with his guitar."
— WBUR (Boston)
"[Among Trees] is a place to go — it's a haven against the world, really, when it's too much . . ."
— Connie Bowblis, WKNH (Keene, NH)
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