Steve Gunn Performs For NPR Music Field Recordings

Earlier this year Steve Gunn released a new album entitled Eyes On The Lines. The guitarist recently performed three songs from the record as part of the NPR Music Field Recordings series.

With an acoustic guitar, Gunn stood among nature to offer stripped down takes on Eyes On The Lines tracks “Ark,” “Night Wander” and “Full Moon Tide.” Here’s how NPR’s Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey described the setting for the session:

In Forest Park, Queens, N.Y., an old relic suits Steve Gunn’s sound. The Long Island Railroad’s Rockaway Beach Branch used to run through the park. It’s been abandoned for over a half-century, and trees have grown between the ties, skewing the rails and jarring the lines. Late this past summer, Gunn stood on the tracks of this worn American symbol and sang three songs off his latest album — songs about meandering, home and the crooked paths that take us wherever we’re meant to be.

Directed by Mito Habe-Evans, watch the three-song set below:

[Night Wander]

[Full Moon Tide]

[Ark]