Guitar Talk: Kenyan Singer-Songwriter Ondara Has Found his Voice in America
From the November/December 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Blair JacksonOne of the more interesting cats to emerge in the acous... Read More...
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Watch Bruce Springsteen’s Take on the Classic “Oh Shenandoah”
Watch the Boss and company perform the folk standard “Oh Shenandoah.” In this recently released video (originally filmed in 2006 during the recording of We Sha... Read More...
How Singer-Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell Tapped Into Tradition in Hadestown—and New Band Bonny Light Horseman
From the November/December 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Jeffrey Pepper RodgersBack in 2006, Anaïs Mitchell was in a Vermont ... Read More...
Album Review: Hiroya Tsukamoto’s Brilliant ‘Window to the World’
From the July/August 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Kenny BerkowitzAmazing fingerpicking on a Martin, plus looping pedalsHiroya Tsukamoto is a ... Read More...
Watch an Alternate Take of Elvis Performing “That’s Alright” at his ‘68 Comeback Special
“That’s All Right” was the first single of Elvis’s storied career. Recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, the track was released in 1954 and is consider... Read More...
The Acoustic Inventions of Chet Atkins, Certified Guitar Pioneer
BY JIM OHLSCHMIDT | Excerpted from the May/June 1993 issue of Acoustic Guitar; reprinted in the September/October 2020 issue of Acoustic Gu... Read More...
Acoustic Guitar Presents Ron Jackson FB Live Takeover with Mimi Fox and Paul Mehling
Acoustic Guitar is hosting another Facebook Live event with Ron Jackson and special guests Friday, Aug. 28.Join us at 7PM (PT)/10PM (ET) for a live perform... Read More...
Justin Townes Earle on Songwriting, His Idiosyncratic Fingerpicking Style, and Battling Personal Demons
By Kenny Berkowitz | From the September 2012 issue of Acoustic GuitarAs the son of Steve Earle, Justin Townes Earle carried an enormous weight of e... Read More...
Watch Lucinda Williams Perform “Jackson” Live in Austin, Texas
Lucinda Williams’ “Jackson” appears on her 1998 album, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which garnered her second Grammy Award (the first was in 1993 for “Passiona... Read More...
Tell Us About Your Musical Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Acoustic Guitar editors are preparing a special feature on readers' experiences during COVID-19.We’d love to hear about how you’ve been deali... Read More...