Bear is a natural storyteller in song, accompanying his sweet bluesy voice with guitar, sitar, bouzouki, and charango, often tuned in his own innovative tunings. He has studied and played music in venues throughout the world, from clubs in Buenos Aires, Bolivia and Mexico City to the Buddhist monasteries of Ladakh in the Himalayas and evangelical churches in the rural Midwest. Wired magazine editor Steve Silberman calls Bear's music "an appealingly fresh synthesis of bluegrass and new-school ...