Solo guitar and guitar/violin pieces - 22 in all - vignettes from the hollows of Vermont and the wellspring of the soul. So much a staple of Lewis’ successful formula, the violin accompaniment magnifies the inner melodies and, with understated elegance underscores the achingly gorgeous messages held within.
Vermont Serenades moves in fluid succession from song to song - never lingering, always returning: from the sheer joy of "New Love" to the majestic stature of "Vermont Serenade" to the healing waves of "Conversation with a Stone Wall", "November", "Epilogue" and so many others.
It is no illusion that is flows like a soundtrack: five of the songs were written for the documentary film Stone Rising by Vermont filmmaker Camilla Rockwell about the noted stonemason/artist and author Dan Snow