Map Of The World
2026
Produced by Billy Masters
Map Of The World was written in the years following the loss of my husband and musical partner, Rick Gedney. These songs reflect my journey through grief and the unexpected ways that music, memory, nature, and connection can move us toward healing.
Leaning In
2023
Produced by Billy Masters
“I love this album Leaning In by Open Book and loved singing on it. Michele Gedney is a co-leader of Writing a Song That Matters and wrote the song "Go" that Cry Cry Cry covered. We lost Rick Gedney last January, but he is so warm and present on this album, Leaning In (available on all streaming platforms).” ~ Dar Williams
ReCollection
2020
ReCollection celebrates 20 years since the release of Open Book's first album. This is a compilation of 20 of the most-streamed songs from their three albums. Included in ReCollection are two songs which have been re-mixed. Indiana, from Open Book’s first release, Out of Time, was originally recorded without Michele’s guitar.
Everything Has Changed, from the same album, was originally recorded without Rick’s guitar or vocal.
Twenty years later, those parts have been added for this release!
Grateful
2015
"Grateful exemplifies the low-key power of haunting melody buttressed with expansive harmony, the satisfaction of adroit wordplay entwined with skillfully understated musicianship. Those Gedney harmonies get showcased to great effect on Open Book's take on Lennon and McCartney's "The Night Before"—rebooted here as a great ballad—and the Richard Thompson/Neil Finn folk-pop gem "Persuasion. Bittersweet rarely sounds so good, or needed".
Robert Burke Warren, Chronogram Magazine
The Things We Keep
2006
Produced by Billy Masters
"The Things We Keep...an engaging amalgam of harmony vocals, tasty folk rock, and most importantly, intelligent and astute songwriting that fully realizes that whatever the two songwriters are living through, most of their audience has also experienced." Mike Jurkovic, Chronogram Magazine
Out of Time
2002
Produced by Billy Masters
“This debut CD, "Out of Time" is testimony for everyone, who knew, from the first time their sound made contact with our aural faculties. These people really know how to make music. What happens when you give a folk musician a Stradivarius? Michele's voice is like a bow being drawn across finely tuned strings. Overall, the musicianship runs like liquid gold through this entire auspicious debut. Hearing the voices of Rick and Michele weave through this set of elegant melodies is an enormous treat." Richard Cuccarro, Acoustic Live Magazine