I love the DADGAD tuning. The rich harmonic potential and full-bodied timbre has been a staple of my playing since I reinvented my guitar vocabulary in the mid-90s.

When I reworked Talk A Big Picture (a song I wrote in 1984), I re-voiced it for my collaboration in Cath Carroll for the song The Gravity Within (re-released by AOTPR in 2007).

A capo placed at the second fret, lending a little freedom to my playing, opened a few conceptual doors to say the least. As I grew more confident performing and writing with this tuning, I found myself rearranging many CC songs for DADGAD. It turned out that the 5th fret became a favorite capo position for our setlists.

And so Capo5Four was born. My guitars & I became “the band” most associated with the musical collaboration with my wife (who performed as Cath Carroll -- the pseudonym Catherine has been employing since the early 80s).

Today, I’ve nicknamed myself C54 and use this moniker for producing and remixing. And although I don’t really see a division between composing, performing, producing and recording, C54 has become the handle I use to identify my original compositions and collaborations with others including the ambient-experimental remixes I’ve created using material from my collaboration in Young Jackies.