"Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichael
While I'd contributed to the first Plectrology with a sloppy multi-track job on a low-end Tascam, my low-fidelity skills combined with a shortage of time had kept me out of the Plectrology loop for the past few years. But the bug was biting, so I decided to toss in a track from a CD that one of the bands I'm in had put out a few years back. Looking back, I guess I've done more mandolin on recordings than guitar, but this track causes fewer cringes on playback than the others I could find. The band is Sweetwater Reunion, currently a quartet based in south central Pennsylvania, led by banjoist Nev Jackson, who'd arranged this jazz standard as a banjo instrumental.

instrument used:
Taylor 510 guitar recording information: taken from Sweetwater Reunion's second CD, entitled A Still Place in My Heart. Recorded about 1997 or so, using the fiddler's recording equipment. The whole album was recorded in a church in Elizabethtown, PA, and mixed with the late, lamented Pete Helffrich in Allentown, PA. Sweetwater Reunion is Nev Jackson (banjo), Ken Gehret (fiddle), Bruce Campbell (bass), and Henry Koretzky (guitar).

biographical information:
I was born in Harrisburg, PA, in 1956, the second son of a pair of German immigrants...picked up the guitar kind of late, around 18 years of age...started out with a garage band, trying to play Allman Brothers covers and rudimentary jazz...discovered newgrass a la Grisman and then bluegrass, joining my first "real" band, High Strung in 1983 on guitar and hammered dulcimer...took up the mandolin a few years later and began freelancing with various groups...currently juggling six bands with various stages of activity: Old World Folk Band, an 11-piece klezmer/Russian band that has released a couple of CDs and a video... Sweetwater Reunion, a local bluegrass quartet...Medicinal Purpose, a contradance band....Sweet Nothings, a trio built around a singer-songwriter named KJ...and two swing groups, Sink Or Swing and The Ken Gehret Quartet.. .played from 1997-2000 with the Ithaca band Cornerstone, enabling me to play at neat festivals such as Wintergrass, Old Settlers, and Wings & Strings...currently retrenching and woodshedding and hoping for bigger and better things musically

dedications:
to my father & mother, Heinz & Martha Koretzky, both of whom passed away this past winter, and who always encouraged and supported my musical dreams and aspirations.