I am very happy to announce the official release dates for our new CDs, These Arms and Wire & Wood. We'll be making the rounds over the next few weeks to do some playing with some of the guys who spent time in my little studio turning these songs into finished pieces.

These Arms is a Mark Viator & Susan Maxey record featuring 11 songs fully produced and ready for download at CDBaby.com, iTunes and Amazon. Of course, if you come out and buy one directly from us you can have it signed by yours and hers truly. Besides the two of us on vocals and guitars, it features Ed Friedland on bass, Richard White and Ralph Power on drums, Peter Schwarz and Beth Chrisman on Fiddle, Steve Doerr and Jane Gillman on harmonica, T Jarrod Bonta on piano, Jim Stringer on guitar, Chip Dolen on organ, and a guest vocal by Slaid Cleaves. Great players one and all.

Wire & Wood is a solo acoustic guitar record I've been holding onto for a while, just waiting for the right time to package and release. Well, that time is now! It's all instrumental music, melodic fingerstyle guitar, at times meditative. I've written a number of documentary soundtracks over the years, and this one stands on its own as a complete album. It will soon be available for download at the previously mentioned sites, but for now you can pick one up anytime from me. Just stop me on South Congress, at the Gingerman Pub, Artz Rib House or Maria's Taco Express.