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Simply The Best

Columbus Musician | Columbus, OH | 04/22/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have all of Tony's CD's, including those where is featured strictly in an accompanying role. This CD ranks at the top of not just his CDs but at the top of this genre. Superb selections, production, and most of all, playing.



5 stars and highly recommended!"

Non-Musicians: get this album and enjoy.

BCPipes | Kennebunk, ME | 02/22/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Guitarists: It will drive you mad. Get it anyway. It's a pleasant madness! I am reviewing this from the audio samples. What I have heard matches and exceeds every album Tony has released so far.



I will be picking up a copy. He is coming to my area in April. I don't know if I can wait to buy a copy from him personally. I'll try."

A very pretty record

Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 02/28/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Tony McManus

"The Maker's Mark: The Dream Guitar Sessions"

(Compass Records, 2009)

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Delicious, contemplative, gentle guitar instrumentals from this Scottish master musician. McManus gathers music from a variety of sources, mostly Celtic and English folk tunes, but also contemporary material and songs from African and Eastern European sources, all handled with great soulfulness and skill. The album is also a showcase for the guitars that McManus plays, an assortment from some fabled music store in North Carolina (Dream Guitars, no less...) whose individual luthiers are even credited in the liner notes, and the guitars themselves are pictured and described within. If you like mellow acoustic guitar records to chill out to -- old John Renbourn and stuff like that -- then this disc is a doozy. Definitely recommended. (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue Guide To World Music)"