1 ~ MACCADOCIOUS (E) Keaggy/Pachelli
MP – The rhythm of this song reminds me of early McCartney, our favorite Beatle as kids. Phil came up with the malapropism title.
PK – I sent Mike this piece and it just came together really well. I tuned my guitar down 2 steps for my leads on this one.

2 ~ BEARS DEN ROAD (Am) Keaggy/Pachelli
MP – Named after the street Phil was living on when we met. It was right around the corner from my Aunt. I first noticed him because of his cool fold-away bike.
PK – This tune started at Mike’s studio in California. We decided files of our ides back and forth where we could really tune in, hone and edit the parts. Yeah, I took a bad spill on that bike back then.

3 ~– WESTSIDE TALKIN’ (E) (Live Duet) Keaggy/Pachelli
MP – We grew up on the West side of Youngstown, Ohio and always joked that our voices blended because of something in the water. This one is Phil and me talkin’ with our guitars.
PK – This jam has more than a few surprises. I dig the tension. Good tension. Attention!! Listen up! Then, it relaxes into that place where no one knows the names of the chords. Fun lines here and there too. The tuning down of the E string is another is another one of those unexpected moments.

4 ~ BIRDS (G, tuned down a 1/2 step) Keaggy/Pachelli
MP – You can hear the birds in the back of the rhythm track as they sung on a beautiful West Hollywood morning. I especially like the melody Phil plays on this one.
PK – Mike sent this piece to me and I really loved the places he went with his part. This tune really shows how Mike and I are truly brothers on our acoustics.

5 ~ REMEMBER WHEN (Em) (Live Duet) Keaggy/Pachelli
MP – The kind of Em to Am groove we’ve jammed on many times. We were really listening to each other play and it led us to some interesting places.
PK – These jams were a lot of fun. We lost ourselves in the moment and something very special was created. This is one where I scat a tad.

6 ~ BEATIFIED (Gm) Keaggy/Pachelli
MP – Phil told me I might have read his mind regarding the melody playing I did on this song.
PK – Another piece I came up with and had Mike do his thing. Very nicely done!

7 ~ FOR JOHN & VAL (DADGAD) Keaggy/Pachelli
MP = I must have been unconsciously thinking about John Sferra’s song “Just Always” (from the second album by Glass Harp) when I was recording the original track.
PK – Mike sent me this track in the mail, and called it “Strummer”. As it developed, I kept thinking about John & Val. When the “Just Always” bit came in, I knew it had to be dedicated to our dear friends.

8 ~ OLD FRIENDS (Bm) (Live Duet) Keaggy/Pachelli
MP – The first song we recorded together for “Two Of Us” at Phil’s Kegworth Studios in Nashville, Tennessee in May 2005. Again, we listened to each other and reacted.
PK – This sounds arranged, but it was totally improvised. It is jazzy here and there, but – also stylistically – our way of improvising together.

9 ~ COUNTY DOWN REVISITED (DADGAD) (Live Duet) Phil Keaggy
MP – A remake of Phil’s brilliant song from his “Beyond Nature” CD. One of my all time favorites that I like to play at gigs.
PK – I’m glad you like this one Mike and thanks for suggesting we do it here. The song brings me back to the day I wrote it and stumbled on it by way of picking up a friends guitar that was tuned in DADGAD. I went home and wrote this.

10 ~ SONG OF THE WOODS (Bm) Keaggy/Pachelli
The sort of ingenious melody that Phil has sitting on his shelves. I very much like the ringing guitar overtones that occurred.
PK – This little piece was a part of an hour of playing and recording from which several songs emerged. It had to have been around 5AM.

11 ~ SELF DUET (DADGBD) Mike Pachelli
MP – This sort of tuning lends itself to fun melodies with plenty of open strings so I thought I’d make this one answer itself.
PK – I like this one, Mike. Glad you did it. I’ll make a cup of tea while you play both parts!!

12 ~ BAGGEND (Dm) Phil Keaggy
MP – Here’s Phil doing a solo duet that proves he is one funky groovin’ dude!
PK – Glad to have found a home for this song. It stands out as very different sonically from the rest. I was sampling a new magnetic pickup made by Baggs and recorded this piece with it. There is no mic on this one at all. It clears the palette, I think – a groovy change.

13 ~ THE WALK (D) (Live Duet) Keaggy/Pachelli
MP – When we were growing up we’d take long walks in Mill Creek Park or in the woods across from Phil’s house. Now we do it in the the hills of Tennessee.
PK – Yes, I remember Mill Creek Park…seems like yesterday. This is a pleasant way to close the CD. It feels like an epilogue to me. Glad to have this as the final live cut on “Two of Us”. I hope everyone who hears our CD will enjoy it as much as we did making it.