Besides a prominent guitar player, Michael Schatte is also a virtuoso on acoustic fingerpicking style He is also a more than interesting composer who devotes himself to produce his own material, as well as supervising and doing all the recording process His songs music and lyrics drink from the sources of rock, blues and Celtic music This just released album represents a turning point between the new and the old music, that both can be found in the fifteen cd songs, thirteen own compositions and two versions The album also includes a booklet with all song lyrics to let listeners to pleasantly follow them As is has been just mentioned, Celtic music and social situation are present in some of the album tracks like in Dry Black Power, Good King Richard or Bread, Water, Love, while blues can be found in Longtime Lover or Come On Down, rivalry, even sexual, appears in Please Don’t Dance With My Brother Daria or The Upper Hand and you will even find influences from Dire Straits or Eric Clapton in Genevieve In short words, this is an album that will allow listeners to discover and appreciate the varied and subtle work of this singer and guitar player called Michael Schatte