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Welcome to my homepage! I'm Joe Gavin, a believer who happens to be an acoustic fingerstyle guitarist. I'm available for your private events, rehearsal dinners or any occasion where beautiful instrumental guitar music is in order. Also, If you want something out of the ordinary for a church event or need a worship leader to fill in while yours is absent please don't hesitate to call.

IT"S LOOP TIME!

Check out my News Page for info on looping and tapping lessons!

Be sure to check out my debut release "Summit of Leaves". This is an all instrumental release with 9 original tracks and one traditional arrangement. I had a lot of fun making this music. I hope you enjoy it!

A quote from the liner notes...

"All of man's creations, as magnificent as they are, seem lacking when compared with nature. Entire libraries and museums of man's finest works cannot move the mind, nor stir the emotions more deeply than that which is said by a single tree. Though silent to us, the trees have their song. Perhaps they have an entire language, unheard by the ears of man. Perhaps they hear our words, and have observed man's folly and strife. They may speak of us often. Perhaps word has spread among the trees of a great assembly, a great convergence of the forest to discuss the state of man, a great....Summit of Leaves"

What can I say? the world around me seems to grow more unstable with each passing moment. Not only is the world economic situation in great turmoil, man continues to slip further and further into a state of moral and spiritual blindness. People are truly hungry for "real", but but you can't "see" the truth when you've surrounded yourself with idols. Search your own heart and see if it isn't true. Pride creeps in unnoticed. The tendancy to compare ourselves to others is a trait we were born with. May humility become out highest goal! Come, let us flee to Jesus and hide ourselves in him.

I'm amazed!

I'm totally amazed when I look at a life, one this world has tried to destroy and I see that God's hand has been at work the entire time. It makes me want to sing! To sing out and have my voice heard, to make melody to the Lord with my voice, yes mine. I'm so shallow....He's so deep. I am full of ugliness, He is a living spring of beauty. Beauty that is always new and with sufficient power to sustain all that we see and all that is not seen. He is righteousness. He is judge. He is merciful even in our pain. He loves us even though we suffer. If pain and suffering mean that I receive from Him good character, persevereance, faith and a heart that longs for the living God.....then may it be mine to bear. Keep up your faith Mike, He is with you in your "Prison Of Pain".

You know, there is a certain satisfaction that comes from doing a thing well. I've come to realize that there is very little I do truly well. What I mean is that there is little I do out of a pure heart. Keeping rules and regulations is one thing, but, if you keep rules and regulations while gritting your teeth what good have you derived form it?

Praise God that He works in the inner man to bring about change.