My RPM challenge this year: acoustic guitar instrumental album with no more than three tracks on each tune (ok, maybe four!) This one is a single track with no overdubs. On the 12 string, the 4th,5th and 6th string pairs are tuned a fourth apart.

Song #2 for the RPMC. My goal is to have 12 short tunes (1-3 minutes long), so I need to pick up the pace. Again, quartal tuning on the top 3 unison pairs of the 12 string. I've been listening to Ralph Towner's Blue Sun, hence the title.

rpm 2012 #2

In my dresser a pile of snapshots Don't look too closely They faked them all Climbed from the wreckage No hero's journey I wore a new name Nobody noticed Live long enough and all your cells get replaced Doesn't that make you Somebody new? Looking…

And so, we all went back to our lives alone. Still, we dreamed and saw the beauty surrounding us. Still, the sun was pushing through the fog.

Elation came as love moved within us and all around us. The cities we lived in hummed along with us.

Reg had something to get of his chest on number 6 for the RPM because he needs rebuilding after that last relationship.................. D,Bm,D, Bm, G, A, G, A, D, Bm, D, Bm, G, A, G, A TAKE ME TO THE MACHINE SHOP(Lyrics) My heads whirring…

rpm 2012 #2