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Produced by guitar legend Alex de Grassi, Ralph Walker's debut album, "Waiting For You" is a solo guitar project containing pieces reminiscent of his mentor.
An arm injury and John Elway abruptly ended Ralph Walkers collegiate baseball aspirations, leaving him to his acoustic guitar. Passion became obsession when he was introduced to Alex de Grassis Slow Circle album. While vocalists Randy Stonehill, Bob Bennett and James Taylor served as valuable influences, it was the mastery exhibited by de Grassi the ability to play in upper, middle and low voices to the extent that it sounded like two or three guitars that drove Walker during college to wholeheartedly pursue it solely as a solo instrument, even finding time to occasionally attend classes.

Walker was fortunate enough to find de Grassi at a point where he was willing to give a few lessons per year. Meanwhile, he met the late Michael Hedges and jazz virtuoso Tuck Andress who were playing nightly at the New Varsity Theater in Palo Alto - a venue that, in hindsight, is a sort of Fillmore of acoustic guitar. Walker began taking lessons from Hedges before the release of his debut album on Windham Hill, Breakfast in the Field. A couple were notable. One occurred in his VW van, right after his son was born. In another, he convinced Hedges to use an alternate fingering to one of his songs a case not unlike the schoolboy pointing out a grammatical error to Hemmingway.
1 Sarah's Surprise
2 Sunday Saunter
3 Waiting For You
4 Gazelle's Passion
5 First Steps
6 Casita Hall
7 Dance Of The Dolphins
8 Prelude No.1 (The Well-Tempered Clavier)
9 Il Bianco Fiore
10 The Maiden's Forest Ride
11 Memoirs
12 Bill Bob's First Trip To Town
13 Homecoming