Jontavious Willis’ Country Blues | Acoustic Guitar Sessions in Place
For this AG Sessions in Place Jontavious Willis performs a country blues interpretation of “Midnight Hour Blues, (Wee Midnight Hours)” by Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell.
Andy McKee Performs and Teaches ‘She’ | Acoustic Guitar Sessions in Place
Over the last 10 years the writers at Acoustic Guitar have called Andy McKee a “sensation,” a “brilliant sonic storyteller,” and “one of the foremost fingerstyle guitarists in the world.” The accolades still ring true in this AG Session in Place, in which McKee performs and teaches some sensational fingerstyle…
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Watch Mimi Fox’s Jazzy Takes on “Blackbird” & “Blue Bossa”| Acoustic Guitar Sessions
Mimi Fox is uniquely positioned to wow you with her playing, and then pull the curtain back and show you how she did it. And her jazz guitar chops and her teaching pedigree (Berklee College of Music, Yale, the California Jazz Conservatory) are on full display in this Acoustic Guitar…
Jerry Douglas Performs “Foggy Mountain Rock” on His Blackbeard Resonator | Acoustic Guitar Sessions in Place
For this AG Sessions in Place Jerry Douglas performs "Foggy Mountain Rock," a rocking bluegrass tune made famous by Josh Graves with Flatt and Scruggs.
Rhett Miller Performs “This House Got Ghosts” | Acoustic Guitar Sessions in Place
Alone with his Gibson Songwriter 12-string (tuned down a whole step, to D G C F A D), Miller brings a beautiful shimmer to the driving rhythm of the song.
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Mike Dawes “Somewhere Home” DADGAD Lesson | Acoustic Guitar Sessions in Place
For this AG Sessions in Place, filmed in Bristol, England, Dawes chose to showcase his original composition “Somewhere Home,” as “it makes a wonderful little lesson and introduction to DADGAD tuning.”
Watch Dom Flemons Perform “Too Long I’ve Been Gone” | Acoustic Guitar Sessions in Place
Flemons performs a song from his new album, 'Prospect Hill: The American Songster Omnibus'
Acoustic Guitar Sessions: Alberto Lombardi
Drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources (Italian standards, the Motown era, and an alien thought experiment), Italian guitarist Alberto Lombardi creates links between them all with his inventive fingerstyle arrangements and masterful technique.
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Kinloch Nelson’s Dynamic Fingerstyle | Acoustic Guitar Sessions
Spend 40 minutes watching Kinloch Nelson in this Acoustic Guitar Session and you might just become a better guitarist.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Jonathan Butler
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Jonathan Butler performs music often classified as R&B, jazz fusion, or worship.
Charlie Rauh’s Ethereal Lullabies | Acoustic Guitar Sessions
Rauh stopped by the AG studios and performed the songs “Fanø” and “Black Sea Dress” on a Collings Baby 1 guitar.
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Sean McGowan Performs Two Acoustic Fingerstyle Pieces | Acoustic Guitar Sessions
This AG Session was shot while McGowan took a break from filming new pieces for the expanded edition of his ever-popular Holiday Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar songbook.
Guitar Talk: John McCutcheon Demos His Pete Seeger 12-String and Performs ‘God Bless the Grass’
On a Friday afternoon this past January, guitarist/folksinger/storyteller/multi instrumentalist/author/Renaissance man John McCutcheon dropped by the AG studios to pass some time before a show that evening at Berkeley’s famed Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Adam Levy
Even if you don’t know it, you’ve probably heard Adam Levy’s fine guitar work.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Gretchen Menn
Here Menn plays a sophisticated arrangement of the old song “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” as well as “Bures-sur-Yvette,” an original composition that was inspired by time she spent in France as a teenager, and which reflects her classical background.
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents: Laurence Juber
Fingerstyle guitar innovator, composer, and musicologist Laurence Juber stopped by the Acoustic Guitar studios in Richmond, California, late last year to perform selections from his latest project, Touchstones—The Evolution of Fingerstyle Guitar. The two-time Grammy winner may be familiar to many ears as the guitarist in Paul McCartney and Wings…
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Albanie Falletta
The New Orleans songstress performs two originals, "Can't Stop Me Now" and "Don't Look Up," and a version of the classic "River, Stay Away From My Door"
Premiere: Watch Christie Lenée’s New Video for “Call My Heart Back Home”
Acoustic Guitar is excited to share in the launch of the official video for “Call My Heart Back Home,” the latest single from fingerstyle stylist Christie Lenée. Lenée, whose unique percussive style and impressive chops helped her secure the title of 2017 International Fingerstyle Guitar Champion, is one of the…
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Nathan Salsburg
The Kentucky-based guitarist Nathan Salsburg has made some of the most compelling acoustic-guitar instrumental albums in this decade, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with the wonderful Chicago-based (English) guitarist James Elkington.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents: Christie Lenée
Playing her cherished Maton EBG808 tuned to D, A, D, F#, A, D and run through a handful of delay, harmony, and percussion effects—and donning a foot tambourine—Lenée demonstrated her award-winning dynamic hybrid fingerstyle/slapping/overhand tapping technique on the songs “Breath of Spring” and “Song for Michael Pukac,” the latter inspired by a painting by the Los Angeles artist of the same name.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Todd Albright
For this session, guitarist and singer Todd Albright played three songs on his retro-style baritone 12-string guitars, while swinging down the West Coast on a tour supporting his album Detroit Twelve String Blues & Rags.
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents: Duck Baker
American fingerstyle legend (and San Francisco Giants fan) Duck Baker stopped by the Acoustic Guitar studios recently to play and discuss a couple of songs off his latest releases.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions: Joe Robinson
Fingerpicker Joe Robinson stopped by the Acoustic Guitar studio for a fiery and fun session, Friday, April 20. Robinson, who was raised in the Australian Outback and now lives in Nashville, opens his AG Session with “Royal Flush.” He plays this harmonic-heavy showpiece from his 2008 album Time Jumpin’ at warp-speed with…
Acoustic Guitar Sessions: The Del McCoury Band (Plus a ‘Guitar Talk’ Interview with Del!)
When Del McCoury’s tour bus rumbled into the parking lot of our offices on a crisp morning in late November 2017, the band members were still waking up after a sold-out two-show night at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage.
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Watch: Chris Smither Performs Three Songs from ‘Call Me Lucky’ in this Acoustic Guitar Session
Earlier this spring, American acoustic folk-blues treasure Chris Smither stopped by the AG studios to play a couple of songs off Call Me Lucky, his first release of all-new studio material since 2012’s Hundred Dollar Valentine.