Oregon Guitarist Ralph Towner Remembered in Live Echoes Session.
Ralph Towner was a guitarist’s guitarist, with a whole generation of finger pickers who have absorbed his merging of classical technique, jazz voicings and improvisation. Now he has plucked his final string, leaving us on January 18, 2026, at age 85. As a composer and guitarist he brought about a renaissance of acoustic chamber music that inadvertently triggered that side of New Age music, as well as inspiring a host of jazz and classical artists seeking something outside their appointed genres. We’ll remember Ralph with a 2001 live performance on Echoes.
Read John Diliberto’s Tribute to Ralph Towner.
| Start Time | Song Title | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:01 | James Hood | Cherry Mandala | Ceremony Radio |
| 0:06:02 | Randy Armstrong | Ode To Sibelius | Echoes of Tomorrow |
| 0:11:51 | Michael Bruckner | Sequential Blue | A Sequence of Colors |
| 0:17:39 | Sarah McLachlan | Better Broken | Better Broken |
| 0:21:34 | Enya | Tempus Vernum | A Day WIthout Rain |
| 0:23:48 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Sunlight and Starlight | Rendering Time |
| 0:29:30 | Immersion | Change of Use | WTF??? |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Remembering Ralph Towner – In Concert – Live on Echoes | ||
| 0:32:18 | Ralph Towner | The Prowler (live) | Anthem |
| 0:37:05 | Ralph Towner | Tramonto (live) | Oracle |
| 0:42:50 | Ralph Towner | Anthem (live) | Anthem |
| 0:47:37 | Ralph Towner | The Silence of a Candle (live) | Diary |
| 0:52:21 | Ralph Towner | Jamaica Stopover (live) | City of Eyes |
| 0:59:00 | I Think Like Midnight | Echo Celeste (excerpt) | Warm Seclusion Structure |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Marya Stark | Negra Luz | Sapphire |
| 1:06:00 | Brian Eno | Spirits Drifting | Another Green World |
| 1:08:05 | Delerium | Remember Love (with Mimi Page) | Signs |
| 1:12:23 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | From Source | Rendering Time |
| 1:17:49 | Falling You | Ariadne | Metanoia |
| 1:24:10 | Dino Pacifici & Brannan Lane | Cold Fusion | Imaginary Horizons 2 |
| 1:29:30 | Deepspace | High Precision Hydrocleansing Protocols (excerpt) | Water Planets |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Where the Good Way Lies | October VI | These Hills |
| 1:36:05 | Cocteau Twins | Beatrix | Treasure |
| 1:39:12 | Quiet Resonance | Alma Fuerte (Strong Soul) | Pathways |
| 1:45:00 | Break | ||
| 1:46:27 | Barry Cleveland & Robert Rich | Tangible Silence | Elliptical Passage |
| 1:50:40 | Rebecca Foon | In a Time of Truth | Black Butterflies |
| 1:54:56 | Bluetech | Echoes of Orion | Spacehop Chronicles 2 |