Don's Passion Session CD, recorded in Berlin's Passionskirche, was released in March 1999 on Narada/Virgin Records. The recording brings Don back to his roots as a solo fingerstyle guitarist, as he produces his first totally solo album ever for Narada's Masters of Acoustic Guitar series. Don got the news of the offer of a new contract with Narada while on tour in Germany in November 1998. The eleven tracks on Passion Session comprise some of the best pieces for solo guitar that Don has composed. Nine brand new titles (written mostly while touring in Europe) are complemented by Don's own "First Ride" (a perennial favourite with his fans and now brought to a wider audience), and David Essig's classic "Berkley Springs."

Don's next recording, Huron Street (released in 2001), is comprised of 12 new performances of pieces already familiar to his fans in Canada. Since the tunes originally appeared on CDs that were only ever released in Canada, Don decided to make some of his favourite earlier pieces available to the wider audience he reaches through his association with Narada Records. All 12 performances are new, each taking a unique twist on the tunes: some of these have appeared before as ensemble pieces and are now captured solo. Two pieces that were originally recorded solo are now presented as duets with amazing upright bassist Jordan O'Connor. Certain compositions originally recorded on the standard guitar are now played on the baritone. The reaction has been very positive, with Huron Street reaching the Top Ten on Billboard's New Age chart in the summer of 2001.

On Robot Monster, Don includes some of his trademark urban-music inspired tuned for solo acoustic guitar, as well as several collaborative efforts. Three of the tunes on the new CD were co-composed with Berlin-based composer Christoph Bendel. The two started to collaborate after Christoph sent an example of a remix that he had made of Don's tune "So Little Time" from his Passion Session CD of 1999. Christoph's father Knut Becker was the recording engineer for Passion Session, and Christoph had brilliantly taken snippets of the recording and remixed them into a very funky groove. For Don, it was love at first listen. Despite being based 7,000 miles apart, the two musicians collaborated on a total of three tunes for the new CD: "So Much Time", "I Think of You", and "Oh Baby". The result is one of Don's funkiest CDs to date, and certainly one to appeal to a whole new group of listeners. "Being able to record this album in my home studio and really take my time with things made the creative process on this album quite possibly the most interesting yet for me personally," says Don. "If I felt inspired at two in the morning, I could simply roll out of bed, grab my guitar, and start creating. It's liberating not to have the meter running, or to feel like you're eating up somebody else's time. Thank goodness for all the advances in computer recording technology in the last few years. It has helped make an album like Robot Monster possible."

Don has recently signed a new recording deal with new US-based independent label Candyrat Records. Music for Vacuuming is, with the exception of one track, a completely solo affair. Don plays several solo guitar tunes, including the acoustic rocker "How to Eat and Avalanche," the Brazilian-influenced "Never Got to Pernambuco," and even a tune ("Fleetstep Choreography") that he learned at the age of 14 from the guitar teacher he had back then, jazzer Steven Cole. But the album also features some ensemble playing, with Don playing all the instruments thanks to the wonder of multitrack recording! Don plays drum kit, percussion, slide dobro guitar, piano, and electric bass in addition to regular-pitched and baritone guitars on some tracks. The album also features a beautiful remix collaboration with Hamburg-based musician Silas Olischlaeger ("Dracula II Mikrokosmos").