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Dan
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Dan Apczynski
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Dan Apczynski is the education editor for Acoustic Guitar. In 2002, he completed his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and left his home state of Michigan for the Bay Area, where he now thinks deep thoughts about music notation. When not engraving lessons for Acoustic Guitar, he gigs regularly around the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Douglas
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Douglas Baldwin
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“I believe that an accurate product review is as important as an educational article or a ‘how-to’ with a great songwriter,” says Douglas Baldwin. “It’s an opportunity to tell the Leonardo da Vincis of the music world that a great new paintbrush is available.” A former associate editor of Guitar One magazine, Douglas is also the author of Play Guitar by Ear (Hal Leonard, 2005). He teaches guitar at Coyote Music, gigs regularly in settings ranging from solo acoustic performances to rock bands to electronic soundscapes, and lives with his wife and son in the aptly named village of Sound Beach, New York.
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Steve
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Steve Baughman
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Steve Baughman is a San Francisco guitarist who loves guitar music with melody, especially Celtic and Appalachian music. He has one solo album, A Drop of the Pure, on his own Tall Trees record label (1522 29th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122; [800] 649-4745) and he appears with Pierre Bensusan, Martin Simpson, and others on the Rounder Records compilation Ramble to Cashel. Baughman has also released two Mel Bay books, Celtic Guitar Method and Celtic Fingerstyle Solos. He is a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Baughman and Wang, where he practices primarily in the area of political asylum law. He has taught at the Swannanoa Gathering and can be reached at www.celticguitar.com.
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Kenny
Berkowitz
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Steve
Boisson
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Steve Boisson
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Steve Boisson has always found it difficult to talk and pick at the same time, hence his appreciation for the talking blues. “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” Arlo Guthrie’s classic, 18-minute yarn, impressed Boisson as a masterpiece of the genre, and for years he assumed that massacree meant “long talking blues.” Had he not recently learned that the word is not recognized by dictionaries, he would have used it in his recent Player Spotlight profile of Todd Snider, whose songs often mix spoken word narratives with musical choruses. Boisson, who wrote a feature on John Fahey for Acoustic Guitar's October 2006 issue, is currently at work on a biography of the late guitarist, who never talked while he played.
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Bob
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Bob Calo
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Bob Calo played his first jazz chords in 1959 under the watchful eye (and ear) of a family friend who idolized Barney Kessel, Joe Pass, and above all, Wes Montgomery. During the ’60s Calo took a predictable detour into blues and rock guitar and ultimately a longer detour into television news and documentary production. Finally, he’s returned to playing the music his old teacher so badly wanted him to play. Currently he teaches at UC Berkeley's graduate school of journalism and performs frequently around the Bay Area.
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Danny
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Danny Carnahan
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Danny Carnahan has been performing, writing, and recording Celtic-inspired music for more than 30 years, playing octave mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and singing. He can currently be found onstage with two bands: Wake the Dead, the world's only Celtic all-star Grateful Dead jam band, and Camogie, a Celtic singer-songwriter quartet. Many of Danny's recordings, including Wake the Dead’s three CDs, can be found through CD Baby, Amazon.com, and www.wakethedead.org. Danny's debut musical murder mystery, A Jig Before Dying, was recently published by Xlibris.
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Phil
Catalfo
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Jon
Chappell
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Jon Chappell
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Jon Chappell studied with Carlos Barbosa-Lima while at Carnegie Mellon University and then earned his master’s degree in composition from DePaul University. He has played and recorded with Pat Benatar, Judy Collins, Graham Nash, and Robert Cray and has contributed numerous musical pieces to film and TV, including Northern Exposure; Walker, Texas Ranger; and Guiding Light. He served as editor-in-chief of Guitar and Home Recording magazines, is the author of three highly successful Dummies books, and has written several books about recording, including The Recording Guitarist: A Guide for Home and Studio (Hal Leonard); Build Your Own PC Recording Studio (McGraw-Hill); and Digital Recording (BackBeat Books).
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