TorchedAuthor: HEDGES,MICHAEL Release Date: 09 04 2013 Details: Amazon. ca Torched is the album Michael Hedges was reputedly working on when he was tragically taken from us in a car wreck in November 1997. It reveals Hedges exploring his fervent desire to be a singer songwriter, rather than the virtuoso guitarist who influenced a generation of string pickers. Hedges played the whole guitar, not just the strings, turning it into a tribal orchestra that