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The March issue of Acoustic Guitar is on newsstands now. Access these features, articles, and lessons online: (To access special reader/subscriber features, including audio files and lessons, enter spring when prompted.) LA FEMME GUITARA: Patty Larkin turns the spotlight on women guitarists with La Guitara, a wide-ranging collection of captivating performances by female instrumentalists. Read Dan Ouellette’s interview with Larkin and tour mates Kaki King, Muriel Anderson, and Mimi Fox. NEW GEAR: Teja Gerken tests the new Epiphone AJ-500RC 12-Fret and finds that its vintage vibe, remarkably complex tones, and unusual dimensions come together in a dreadnought that’s well suited to fingerstyle playing. Listen online as Teja puts the Epiphone through its paces. HERE'S HOW: Writing from experience, Jack Tuttle says that once you’ve found them a teacher, you can “Help Your Kids Learn to Play” by setting realistic goals, minimizing frustration, keeping instruments handy, and finding music that will inspire them. LESSONS AND MUSIC TO PLAY: (To access special reader/subscriber features, including audio files and lessons, enter spring when prompted.) - THE BASICS: Open-String Blues. Are your blues solos sounding like a bunch of scale fragments? Pete Madsen shows you how to add open strings to the pentatonic blues scale and create a whole new batch of blues licks.
- LICK OF THE MONTH: Andrew Hardin, Tom Russell’s longtime lead guitarist, demonstrates one of his hot, country-rock lead lines, full of multiple slurs and ringing scale tones. LUTHIER'S WORKBENCH: Michael Wright delves into the history and legacy of the Larson Brothers, “Windy City Innovators” who built some of the finest guitars of the early 20th century. Through brands like Prairie State and Euphonon, their unique instruments provide a tonally rich alternative to vintage favorites. READER'S RIG: Reformed headbanger/electronic-raver Randy Collins slaps, taps, and delicately fingerpicks his treasured McIlroy A25C grand concert. Each month we feature one of our readers’ rigs in the magazine. To be considered, send a description of your setup to editors.ag@stringletter.com Also in the March issue: A feature lesson with LEO KOTTKE, who, along with John Fahey, Bert Jansch, and John Renbourn, invented contemporary fingerstyle guitar in the early '70s. After nearly 40 years as a soloist, he's recently been reshaping his music in a duo with former Phish bassist Mike Gordon. In this exclusive interview, the veteran guitarist talks to Teja Gerken about learning to play with other musicians, tone production, and picking technique.  Plus reviews of a new acoustic-electric guitar by Breedlove and the SansAmp Par Driver DI; music to Leo Kottke’s “Cherry County,” John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” and Cream’s “Strange Brew”; a profile of veteran country-blues guitarist Terry Robb; and reviews of new CDs by Wilco, Jake Shimabukuro, Lenny Breau, David Wilcox and Nancy Pettit, and others. Subscribers gain access to even more online features, including audio files and lessons, via the password included in each issue of Acoustic Guitar. www.acousticguitar.com Return to Top | |||
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Enter our giveaway by June 30, 2006, and you could win one of two guitars: a Larrivée LV-09E Rosewood Artist series or a Larrivée L-03 Mahogany series. Both of these high-quality guitars feature all-solid-wood construction, and the LV-09E features AAA Indian Rosewood back and sides, includes a cutaway and the L.R. Baggs iMix Notch system! Enter the giveaway by clicking here or by clicking on the “Win” button in the left-hand menu bar at www.acousticguitar.com. Previous Giveaway Winners Return to Top |
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BULLETIN BOARD New Instructional DVD for Guitarists Corey Harris. Teaches Blues Guitar, from Mississippi to Mali On his groundbreaking 2003 CD Mississippi to Mali, blues guitarist and singer Corey Harris explored the connections between delta blues and African folk music. In this excellent DVD, which should appeal to fans of both genres, he teaches seven tunes in depth, covering ragtime, delta-style and slide guitar, as well as African fingerstyle. The linchpin of the session is his demonstration of Skip James’ “Special Rider Blues.” First, Harris plays it in the Mississippi style, then he “Africanizes” it by adding chokes, mutes, trills, and other touches. All the songs are written out in tablature and standard notation and close-ups show Harris’ picking and fretting hands. This is an engaging lesson for intermediate and more advanced guitarists who want to add some cross-cultural spice and authentic blues chops to their playing. (Homespun Tapes) —Ian Zack Return to Top |
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WHAT'S HAPPENING Acoustic Grammy Winners Buried under the pop, rock, and hip-hop hoopla of last week’s 48th Annual Grammy Awards telecast were several triumphs of interest to readers of Acoustic Guitar. April AG cover-story subject Tim O’Brien’s Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill) was named Best Traditional Folk Album; January’s AG feature artist John Prine picked up the Best Contemporary Folk Album award for Fair and Square (Oh Boy); Bruce Springsteen nabbed the Grammy for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for his song “Devils and Dust” (Columbia); the Best Hawaiian Album Grammy went to Masters Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Vol. 1 (Daniel Ho Creations); and the historic meeting of guitarist Ali Farka Toure and kora virtuoso Toumani Diabate, In the Heart of the Moon (Nonesuch), garnered the Grammy for Best Traditional World Music Album. Heartworn Highways on CD Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Heartworn Highways, the historic documentary film about the birth of alt-country in Austin, Texas, and Nashville, Tennessee, in the mid-1970s, HackTone Records/Shout! Factory will issue Heartworn Highways, a CD of 20 performances recorded for the film in 1975–76 by Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, John Hiatt, David Allan Coe, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Young, and others. The tracks have been remastered for the their first release on CD, which hits stores on March 14, the same day that Palm Pictures will issue the DVD version of Be Here to Love Me, the recent documentary about the life of revered singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Return to Top |
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UPCOMING IN ACOUSTIC GUITAR April: A feature interview with TIM O’BRIEN: The Grammy-winning “Trad Trailblazer” and wide-ranging multi-instrumentalist talks to Kenny Berkowitz about finding a personal sound and explains how playing fiddle and mandolin sharpens his guitar skills—with words and music to “California Blues.” Shawn Hammond checks in with four-forward thinking acoustic guitarists who use ELECTRONIC EFFECTS to create their own new sounds. They describe how they use everything from subtle compressors and tube Dis to over-the-top fuzz boxes and sound-effect generators to take their playing to new levels. Our annual SUMMER STUDY EXTRAVAGANZA includes minilessons from five experienced workshop instructors: David Hamburger on blues hot licks, Wendy Waldman on songwriting, Andrew DuBrock on pop-song accompaniment, Happy Traum on fingerstyle blues, and Peppino D’Agostino on arranging in open tunings (with words and music for “House of the Rising Sun.”). And the 2006 Summer Study Guide includes listings for more than 125 camps and workshops. May: A feature lesson with CHRIS SMITHER; an interview with folk-punk singer-songwriter BILLY BRAGG; Frank Ford shows you how to make and REPLACE YOUR OWN SADDLE; profiles of Toshi Reagon and the Greencards; lessons in swing rhythm and fingerstyle blues-rag licks, and much more. Return to Top |
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