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Elvis Costello, Neko Case, Lowell ‘Banana’ Levinger & Others Are Finding a Place for Tenor Guitars in Their Music

From the February 2017 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY GREG CAHILL "I certainly am a tenor-guitar proponent. It’s tuned in fifths and playing in fifths just... Read More...

GEAR REVIEW: Recording King’s Harmonella Single 0 Offers a Modern Spin on a Vintage Vibe

By Adam Levy The Recording King label has its origins in the 1930s, when the department store and mail-order retailer Montgomery Ward sold archtop and flatto... Read More...

Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger! Watch Him Perform ‘If I Had a Hammer’ in 1956, Read an In-Depth Q&A from the Archives

Before his death in 2014, AG interviewed Pete Seeger about his life and influence on contemporary folk music for its July 2002 cover story. Below is that interv... Read More...

New Gear: Solomon Phidelity Gives a Nod to Classic Acoustic Guitars of Yore [VIDEO]

By Adam Levy An Archtop for the Ages - Solomon’s Phidelity gives a nod to Loar, D’Angelico & da Vinci With the Phidelity model, New Hampshire luth... Read More...

Trolling for Trouble: The Internet Can Be an Ugly Place for Musicians

By Patrick Sullivan In June, two weeks after Frank Fairfield appeared on what should have been a career-heightening NPR Tiny Desk Concert, the old-timey musici... Read More...

Album Review: James McMurtry Strips Down to Acoustic Guitars on ‘Complicated Game’

From the April 2015 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY MARK KEMP There’s not a better living American songwriter than James McMurtry, whose literary bloodline... Read More...

Taylor T5z Review

posted by Adam Levy Ten years after Taylor released its first “electracoustic” T5 model—which featured a streamlined body shape and pioneering onboard electr... Read More...

Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Meklit

In the San Francisco Bay Area, singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero is a big deal, a sort of renaissance woman who not only has her hands in various strains of music... Read More...

Eliza Gilkyson Delivers a Remarkable Ode to the Southwest with ‘Songs from the River Wind’

The Americana singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson has never made an album quite like Songs from the River Wind. She calls it a “love letter to the Old West."