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Guitarmakers and Guitarmaking

After 50 Years at the Forefront of the Guitar Repair Industry, Dan Erlewine Is at the Top of His Game

Guitar repairman Dan Erlewine holding an acoustic guitar

Dan Erlewine's pioneering reference works and instructional content have made him a mentor to three generations of guitar maintenance and repair geeks.

E.E. Bradman
April 27, 2021

Alternate Tunings

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, which includes Jorma Kaukonen’s “Embryonic Journey,” Pete Seeger’s “Living in the Country,” the Beatles’ “Dear Prudence,”…

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
March 14, 2021

Play Like Your Favorite Guitarists

Video Lesson: Exploring Joan Baez’s Elegant Guitar Style

Joan Baez performing acoustic guitar onstage during a concert

A skilled and precise fingerstyle player, Joan Baez modeled an approach to accompaniment that was not flashy, but effective, elegant, and complete-sounding with no other instruments.

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
January 24, 2021

Instrumentalists, Scenes

A Survey of British Fingerstyle Guitar from the 1960s to the Present

British fingerstyle guitar pioneer Davey Graham

British guitarists Davey Graham, Martin Carthy, John Renbourn, and their contemporaries created a body of work that set the template for modern players while helping extend the expressive range of the steel-string guitar in general.

Julian Piper
December 20, 2020

Songwriters

Watch Bruce Springsteen’s Take on the Classic “Oh Shenandoah”

bruce springsteen oh shanendoah seeger acoustic guitar

In this recently released video (originally filmed in 2006 during the recording of We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions), the song reaches new heights with Springsteen’s signature anthemic, yet acoustic, sound.

Joey Lusterman
September 23, 2020

History and Remembrances, Songwriters

Woody Guthrie’s Songwriting Wisdom

Guthrie is in many ways our prototypical singer-songwriter, showing the young Bob Dylan, among countless others, how to use old songs to make new ones.

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
July 14, 2020

Scenes

Out of the Blues: Reflections on the 1960s Folk Revival

Happy Traum, Stefan Grossman, Rory Block, and Steve James

In the late 1950s and early ’60s, prewar acoustic blues guitarists such as Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and Reverend Gary Davis earned late-in-life fame as new audiences eagerly devoured their music through performances at events like the Newport Folk…

Adam Perlmutter
May 7, 2020

Blues

Video Lesson: Learn to Play the Talking Blues

Sometime in the 1920s, a peculiar form of blues emerged that was substantially different from the better-known varieties. The style is commonly known today as talking blues. Despite the moniker, however, it rarely employs the 12-bar chord progression that is…

Adam Levy
February 23, 2020

Interviews and Profiles

The Lasting Legacy of the Kingston Trio

Dick Boak traces the Kingston Trio's massive success to their folk roots.

Dick Boak
November 3, 2019

What They Play

Cataloging the acoustic guitars at Woodstock

John Sebastian performing at Woodstock 1969, seen from the rear of the stage.

On the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival, our author compiled a catalog of the acoustic guitars played on stage by Richie Havens, John Sebastain, Country Joe McDinald, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Neil Young and more.

Blair Jackson
August 11, 2019