Do you feel like taking a walk through a 50 minute garden of tone poems? Then stroll along through Laurence Jubers' "Altered Reality." This, his 6th CD, is quintessential Juber. A master of acoustic finger style guitar work, this solo album is his journey through a dozen moods and a dozen images. Each cut on this album was brought into creation from an image in LJs' mind.

The first cut, "Nighthawk," takes the listener on the dark journey of a night predator. LJs' first rate fingerwork, and rhythmic hand slaps, convey the fiercely flapping wings, the soaring glides and dives of the predator of the night skies.

"Still Warm" is a romantic piece that pours forth very tender feelings and sweet images of a moment in the life of a pair of lovers. It's gentle and warmhearted, conjuring pictures in the mind of a prolonged afternoon spent in the unhurried embrace of true love.

"Fountain Jumping" is happy, mischievous and light! It is exactly what it's title implies - a lively frolic in a park's fountain during a hot summer day. High-spirited, infectious laughter, and shrieks of delight are almost heard springing out from this refreshing summer spray.

LJ paints a picture for us of Beale St. in Memphis, and a wounded bird. "Fall Of A Sparrow" is very bluesy, and quite sad. Despite LJs' own static description of this imagery, this piece has a feeling of movement to it. It progresses down the street, glimpsing the other folks on the sidewalks, or perhaps it just follows the eventual passing of the sparrow. This music has life in it, albeit melancholy, and it's not an unpleasant journey.

Another journey with a different edge to it is "Cat Hill," the 10th cut on the album, and a wistful and nostalgic voyage back in time. This composition lingers in the halcyon vapor of memory; the innocence of youth as seen through the eyes of a well-travelled and gentle man. Bittersweet and heartwarming all at once, I was sorry this number had to end.

Some of the images are somber and forboding, others bright, full of promise and joy. This collection of works is just like a small volume of poetry. Each piece has a different cast, a different sensation, and yet they are all tied together by a common thread - the beauty and artistry of the sound of a master musician and a single guitar.