Video Lesson: Bruce Cockburn Teaches His Sophisticated Guitar Style
In Bruce Cockburn’s hands, the guitar becomes a true band in a box, delivering powerful grooves, riffs, melodies, harmonized lines, and improvised solos in real time.
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Acoustic Classic: Bruce Cockburn’s ‘If I Had a Rocket Launcher’
Cockburn originally recorded the song in a rock-band setting, flush with electric guitars and synths, but when he stopped by our studio, he stripped the song down to just guitar and voice.
CD Review: Bruce Cockburn Is Still Searching for Answers on ‘Bone on Bone’
In the six years since Small Source of Comfort, his last album of new songs, Bruce Cockburn has gotten married, settled in San Francisco, become a father for th... Read More...
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Bruce Cockburn
In this special half-hour edition of Acoustic Guitar Sessions, senior editor Marc Greilsamer talks at length with Cockburn about his love of acoustic guitars and the singer-songwriter performs three tunes: the instrumental “Bohemian 3-Step,” “Waiting for a Miracle” and his most famous song, the politically fierce “If I Had a Rocket Launcher.”
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Great Acoustics: Linda Manzer’s Sunflower Guitar for Ukraine
Renowned Canadian luthier Linda Manzer made the "Sunflower Guitar" to raise funds to aid the Ukrainian people.
My First Guitar | The Acoustic Guitar Podcast
Listen to the first-ever episode of The Acoustic Guitar Podcast, a new monthly show from your friends at Acoustic Guitar magazine.
Video Lesson: Exploring Dropped-D Fingerpicking
Fingerpicking and dropped-D tuning fit together like hand and glove. For evidence, just consider the long list of fingerpicking classics played in dropped D, w... Read More...
Acoustic Guitarists Sound Off on Their Musical Lives in the Age of COVID-19
What we learned from a survey of nearly 900 readers was fascinating, informative, sobering, and ultimately, inspiring
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Luthier Profile: Larrivée Guitars
Since building his first guitar in the 1970s, Jean-Claude Larrivée also built several factories from the ground up
Book Review: A Definitive Look at the Life of Blues Legend Robert Johnson
Bruce Conforth and Gale Dean Wardlow's 'Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson' is the latest book to search for the man behind the myth