Winner “Best New Age Album” – 1998 Grammy Awards Oracle marked Michael’s return to “the sound that made Hedges a hero to the acoustic guitar set” (Pulse). The hand-made guitar on which Michael had written much of the music for his first album was stolen in 1982 at a show he’d opened for the Jerry Garcia Band. Mysteriously returned in late 1995, some thirteen years later, it helped inspire this acoustic-guitar-laden collection of brand-new Hedges instrumentals, plus one each from Frank Zappa, Henry Mancini, and the Beatles.