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Pōhaka Lā
maya
gleaming towers
senbazuru
loops for larry
arctic front
okanagan jubilee
dust bowl revisited
legacy
silenzi
renewal
there but 4

There But 4

the acoustic slide guitar toward the right,
both in the mix, and on this page,
is a Weissenborn

There but for the grace of God go I... It's a saying I've heard all my life. I just Googled it and learned that it is a "proverbial saying" of contested origin. There But 4 came from my awareness that as far as the human condition goes, I've lived an amazingly lucky and fulfilling life. I'm not saying that I haven't gone through my own set of difficulties. I am saying that when I look around at all of the pain, suffering, loneliness, despair, illness, poverty, strife and unfairness of the human condition, I feel fortunate beyond words. That was my state of mind when I wrote There But 4. The acoustic slide instrument I'm playing (to the right in the mix) is a Weissenborn - a lovely Koa wood acoustic instrument built expressly to be played with a slide.

Many thanks to Paul Olguin on bass and Karl Perazzo on congas. I'm grateful to both of them for bringing their deep musical roots to this track.

Bruce Kaphan
P.O. Box 2012
Fremont, CA 94536
USA