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I have spoken to you before and told you how much my clients love your music in my office. My practice is a counseling office, I see both children and families. Mothers remember having given birth to your music when they hear it in my waiting area. The way my office is set up the music is just outside my therapy office, where I meet with my clients, your music can be heard throughout the session, especially during the silent reflective monents. You music is healing.Keep making music, it speaks to people and heals them.
Your latest CD is perfect. I can not get enough of it.
Thank you so much for sharing your deep heart and talent with all of us. - L.M. - June of 2008
"Your music softens the boundaries of the soul."
"We purchased Gardener's Rain, and it is now a part of our lives. What a peaceful and calming recording. Our five year old told us it's what music in heaven sounds like."
"Well, it's official, I'm hooked. Your music is wonderful. For years I've searched for music that didn't become irritating after you have listened to it for a while. I must have played my Green Mountains tape 100 times, and I still love it."
"We've got Spencer Lewis' A Sense of Place and love it. It has added to the healing qualities of our acupuncture treatments. Our patients request it repeatedly."
"Your music is incredible...it speaks directly to the heart and soul and I take flight in it." "Every day I play Lighter than Fancy, and I never get tired of it. I'm an artist, but also a busy mother. Whenever I play your CD, I want to drop the household chores and just paint, bake a pie, do something creative. Other times it makes me think of my children and how precious they are to me. Especially that "Reunion." How beautiful! The first time I heard it, I had to pick up my two-year-old and dance with her. I had tears in my eyes." I think your music is magic.... It helps me to smile, slow down and to be a little kinder. It helps me to see the forest of my life without letting all those trees get in the way."
"My six month old daughter and I dance to your soft, sweet tunes before bed every evening... works like a charm!"
Reviews and Letters
Upper Valley Life Article, November/December 2008
A Balm From Gilead, The Handmade Music of Spencer Lewis
By John Walters, Photographed by Tim Calabro
The guitar takes its time, crafting a tune with care, like a Vermonter building a stone wall or a cabin in the woods. The violin wraps itself around the tune, defining a sonic landscape - like the forested hillside where the Vermonter builds. And like the stone wall or the cabin, the music is built for comfort, and it’s built to last.
Come, trace the music to its source: leave the highway and drive up a back road that follows the twists and turns of Gilead Brook. Don’t blink, or you'll miss the driveway. It rises into the trees, takes one sharp bend, and there is the home of Spencer Lewis: a woodsy looking place on a small clearing. Lewis' property encompasses 45 acres of hand cleared trails, suitable for hiking in summer and back country skiing in winter. You can almost hear his music, as if it arose naturally from the surroundings. The phrase "a sense of place" gets overused a lot in these parts - Lewis himself used it for an album title - but it surely does fit. Download a PDF of the full article
Times Argus Article published July 25, 2008
Spencer Lewis: Two albums, two approaches
By Art Edelstein Arts Correspondent
Spencer Lewis, who has made a successful musical career as a vocalist, guitarist, new age fiddler, and songwriter, is passing a milestone in 2008 as this is his 20th year in the recording business. To celebrate he's released two new CDs: "Drifter," a live performance from last year's First Night Montpelier, and "Up on the Mountain," which includes cello accompaniment to his guitar and violin work. In all, the Lewis catalog now contains 19 CDs, a prodigious number for a musician whose performance schedule is fairly slim and limited primarily to Vermont and frequently only at craft fairs. Download a PDF of the full article
Valley News Article published December 11, 2003
Bethel Resident Spencer Lewis: Fashioning a Life of Music and Stone
By Tom Hill Valley News Staff Writer
Whether you know it or not, you've probably heard the soothing, acoustic tunes of Spencer Lewis. Not on the radio, not at any major music festivals. But the soft spoken guitarist violinist from Bethel - who has released 14 CDs on his Quartz Recordings label - is a ubiquitous presence at a couple of dozen neo-rustic retail outlets in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Upstate New York.
"I always knew that if I could get headphones on someone's head, they'd hear, they'd buy" Lewis says hunkered in his small, funky shed that serves as his studio. Deep in the woods close behind his comfortable home on a winding dirt road, and cluttered with recording gear, Quartz Recordings won't be the subject of an MTV documentary anytime soon. Download a PDF of the full article
