It is a rainy Monday morning, made worse by a stomach bug and too little sleep. So, I thought about whom to review for Music Monday. I wanted to listen to something soothing and comforting. I wanted to listen to something that was simple mastery of a fine art.

Looking through my collection of performers to review, Peter Janson came to the top of my list. Peter is an acoustic finger style guitar player. As a person that loves words and stories, I usually review singer/songwriters. I can talk about their words and stories. I like finger style guitar, but it is hard to find much to say about such performers. Back in June, I reviewed Kyle Offidani. He had a good story to talk about.

Peter is harder to write about. Yet he's much further along on his journey than Kyle is. Peter has six CDs out, although one is out of print. His website talks about having over 200,000 radio and broadcast plays. He's got a pretty full schedule, with nine gigs in California, and four gigs in Oregon for the month of October alone. In November, he comes out east for a bunch of shows in Massachusetts in November, including a performance at Club Passim on November 21st.

So, instead of trying to come up with flowery words for his music, it may be best simply to highlight a video of Peter performing at the 2010 Montreal Guitar Show