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the Spaghetti harp

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Currently recording debut CD.

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Returning from a seven month journey on the Appalachian Trail in 2001, the Spaghetti Harp, aka Michael Libero, confronted a world altered; Not just by the events of September 11th, but the soul altering experience of back packing from Georgia to Maine.
Quiting his band before he left, Michael(34) considered his life in music over. The following seven months of hiking, constituted the longest, continuous time he had spent away from music The effect was striking. Endless melodies filled his head while hiking eight to ten hours a day. Beautiful old songs his father and mother always had playing in the house of his youth. One moment a heart breaking Hank Williams ballad, followed by an equally plaintive Sinatra swoon. Gone from his mind was all the music he thought he loved. The silence seemed only to allow time to truly worthy songs. Dylan survived, Gutherie was present, Irving Berlin, Armstrong, and Billie Hoilday visited. Days were spent endlessly hummin the Tenneessee Waltz while hiking through her mountains.
These were the sounds in his head. In the mountain towns he visited, another music awaited.

It was in Hot Springs, NC, while sleeping next to the train tracks, that he heard the first assured banjo plicks of authentic American bluegrass. He awoke to find a five piece rehearsing on the corner for an upcoming festival in town. He stood utterly speachless...this was the shit.
Having spent so much time in the mountains this music made sense... heartbreak, joy, murder, fear and God, it was all there...and you could dance to it.
That day changed everything.

Reaffirmed in music, Michael returned from the mountains, with stories and songs of his own. Songs, he hopes, that honor the tradition of the American troubadours, while pushing the boundaries ever further.