In this video, Fer discusses some of the challenges she faced as a female guitarist playing the bar scene, how Ani DiFranco inspired her, and the instrument designed specifically for her by AJ Guitars, named Mrs. Robinson.
Sainte-Marie opens up about how she’s persevered—as an artist and an activist—and why she’s uplifted by the fact that there’s always more work to be done.
David Bromberg is back at the top of his game, playing blues that are as funny as they are sad and talking about old songs, new chords, and his custom Martin 0000s.
‘My first memory of a Weissenborn was seeing them—not even hearing them—and going, “God, that’s one of the more beautiful instruments I’ve ever seen come through the doors of my family’s music shop.”’
I’m not Jewish. I’m a redneck from North Carolina. But I made this journey from hillbilly to playing Jewish music, because what I like is music with soul.
Hot on the heels of their joint album Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad folk stars Billy Bragg and Joe Henry stopped by the Acoustic Guitar magazine office to shoot an AG Sessions episode and to offer tips on getting a fat acoustic guitar tone.
From the new album’s hard-hitting opening track, “One of Us,” based squarely on a gritty, fuzzy synthesizer hook, We’re All Gonna Die introduces a more muscular and electronic Dawes.
“There are at least hundreds, maybe thousands of jug bands out there. It’s amazing. I see them everywhere I go and hear some really good ones,” says guitarist and bandleader Jim Kweskin. “In every town, every village, every city, someone’s got a jug band. “It’s astounding to me.” Kweskin, the…
Dear Aunt Sarah, Thank you so much for sending me the link to your online posting of “Jambalaya.” I enjoyed all 12 verses, although not in one sitting. And let me be the first to say that those guitar lessons are really paying off, because you were able to switch…
If you go back and listen to my earliest albums, Who’s Gonna Save the World and Naked Movie Star, I’m a strummer. We were folkies, but we were punks at heart.
“At one point, I was like Mr. Guitar in Greenwich Village,” says Bruce Langhorne, talking by telephone on the 50th anniversary of "Mr. Tambourine Man"'s release.
It's one of the world’s great guitar shops—so storied that LA Weekly instituted the annual awards category, “Best Guitar Shop (That’s Not McCabe’s).” There’s no place quite like it.
Along with his fruitful new songwriting partnership with Shane Fontayne, Nash remains prolific as a visual artist—especially with his first love, photography.
