His instrumental guitar album will be released on September 12th
Tesla co-founder and lead guitarist Frank Hannon shares a new instrumental single, “Our Father’s Love,” out now alongside a contemplative music video filmed in the Sierra Mountains of Northern California. Drawn from his forthcoming solo album Reflections – a Western‑inspired, all‑guitar collection arriving September 12th – the track captures how Hannon used the instrument as his voice during a season of upheaval and healing.
Composed after a cross‑country evacuation with three horses in tow and the grief that followed, “Our Father’s Love” channels the quiet, steady gratitude Hannon felt while praying on the road and finding his way back home. The melody carries that feeling without lyrics – a spiritual tone expressed through touch, space, and bend.
“Reflections is a very personal album of musical expression for me by using only guitar as my voice, and the new single ‘Our Father’s Love’ came speaking from my soul with the guitar’s melody,” says Hannon. “My goal was to bend the guitar strings to create notes in a contemplative way that expresses gratitude.”
The video was filmed with videographer Kelly Smith over several days in Hannon’s “favorite place on Earth,” the Sierra Mountains – a landscape that has always symbolized spiritual peace for him.
“I wanted to shoot a video that shows creation and the concept of a man seeking – praising with the guitar,” Hannon shares. “The title ‘Our Father’s Love’ came to me the night I recorded the guitar melody. My wife and I listened back, then stepped outside to look up at the stars. We felt love carrying us through pain and the grieving process.”
He adds, with humility, “I’m certainly not a preacher – faith can be difficult in today’s world – but I was really feeling the guitar melody of ‘Our Father’s Love,’ and it reflects a spiritual tone that I felt from within my soul.”
True to the album’s ethos, “Our Father’s Love” was captured in one continuous take on Hannon’s cell phone using an Audigo wireless mic, keeping the recording as bare and human as the feeling it carries. The chain is intentionally simple: Gibson Les Paul → small Fender Deluxe Reverb with the Audigo mic placed in front of the amp, routed straight into the Audigo mobile app for light overdubbing. After the lead melody was written and recorded, Hannon added a supporting acoustic guitar to outline the E minor changes, plus bass through the same amp – all single‑take performances. No drums. No vocals. No wah, fuzz, or heavy effects.
Audigo’s pared‑back toolset made that possible: straightforward multi‑track recording and mix, conveniently stripped down for live takes, focused on the fundamentals so you’re not overwhelmed like on a computer DAW. “It was a very inspired performance and easy to capture with Audigo,” Hannon says. “The approach is very stripped down and natural – just the performance – to capture the soul of the music itself.”
Reflections is Hannon’s most intimate work – a phone‑recorded, Western‑tinged instrumental album tracked as raw first takes during a period of loss, return, and renewal. It places the guitar as a lead voice, with cinematic melodies, soulful slide, intricate fingerpicking, and moody chord progressions that move like open sky. The album arrives September 12th on all digital platforms, with special vinyl and CD available at Hannon’s website.
To celebrate the single and the upcoming album, Hannon will play a short Reflections run this September, beginning with a show at The Cutting Room in New York City on Tuesday, September 9th, followed by a performance at Daryl’s House in Pawling, NY on Wednesday, September 10th. He will then appear at Duane Betts’ annual Horseshoe Festival in Jackson Hole, WY, on September 12-13.
