a good acoustic guitar player. I mean I?ve released records from people like Tommy Emmanuel, Adrian Legg and Peppino D?Agostino. These guys, that?s their home you know. I feel like I?m an acoustic player for texture. ?John the Revelator? is your adaptation of the old blues song by Blind Willie Johnson. Everybody has covered that song from Sam & Dave to the White Stripes. Really cool versions too. I was a big fan of that 4-CD set called Anthology of American Folk Music. It?s wild. I first heard about it when Tom Waits told me about it. He was telling me about Harry Smith who was this crazy artist that was an archivist and he collected all of these early, early Americana folk recordings. So the record is just filled with all these people expressing themselves very sincerely and very organically. Once Blind Willie Johnson, once I heard his version of ?John the Revelator? it stopped me dead in my tracks. You thought this was something you could adapt for the album? I immediately heard all these big fat guitars on it. So I licensed a snippet and built ?John the Revelator? around it. Actually that piece and the following piece, ?The Book of the Seven Seals,? were one piece of music but I cut them in half. If you go and check out ?John the Revelator? and type in Counterpoint Concert Choir, you?ll see this high school choir singing this stunning arrangement of ?John the Revelator.? I was so