Breakfast in the Field

Breakfast in the Field
Studio album by
Released1981
RecordedThe Music Annex, Menlo Park, CA
GenreNew-age, world
Length33:43
LabelWindham Hill
ProducerWill Ackerman
Michael Hedges chronology
Breakfast in the Field
(1981)
Aerial Boundaries
(1984)

Breakfast in the Field is the debut recording by guitarist Michael Hedges released on the Windham Hill label in 1981. It was recorded live to 2-track, with no overdubs.

According to the album's liner notes, Hedges composed and recorded "Eleven Small Roaches", "Baby Toes" and "Two Days Old" on a six-string guitar built in 1978 by Ken DuBourg of Arbutus, Maryland. The remaining tracks were recorded using a guitar made by Ervin Somogyi.