With a 1960s-vintage Harmony Sovereign Deluxe Jumbo in hand, Michael Fracasso stopped by the Acoustic Guitar Sessions studio to perform three songs: "Here Come the Savages," "Gypsy Moth," and "Red, White, and Blue."
Eldred (with bassist John Bazz and drummer Brian Fahey) talks about the Delta, its people and its music while performing three songs from ‘Baptist Town’
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Watch Rodriguez perform two songs off Lola, "Llano Estacado" and "La Última Vez," accompanied by guitarist Luke Jacobs.
Texas singer, songwriter, and guitarist James McMurtry arrived at the AG studio recently, surly and travel-weary, with a new haircut, an old fishing cap, an Ovation 12-string guitar, and a deep well of stories to tell in song.
On the heels of their recent duo album Artifact, Acoustic Guitar magazine invited Skye and Goldenberg to record an Acoustic Guitar Session. The acoustic guitarists offered up stunning improvisational performances built around two original instrumentals: Skye's "Golden" and Goldenberg's "Song 13."
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Mixing up genres without pretension,” Jazz Times opined of Portland, Oregon, fingerstylist and composer Jamie Stillway, “the nimble Stillway moves freely with wit and creative restlessness.” Since moving to the Pacific Northwest in 2002, Stillway has recorded three self-produced albums, using a battery of alternate tunings, marked by graceful melodies…
In this Acoustic Guitar Sessions video, Sean Watkins discusses his 2016 album What to Fear (Thirty Tigers), his fifth solo album, and performs two songs from the album, “Where You Were Living” and “What to Fear,” as well as the bitter break-up song “Somebody More Like You,” from the Nickel…
Finnish guitarist Olli Soikkeli, who performs the blistering lead guitar parts in this recent Acoustic Guitar Session featuring the Rhythm Future Quartet, met with guitar tragedy last weekend in Europe.
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The songs of Jeffrey Foucault display an earnest, though often tender, Midwestern sensibility. During the past 15 years, this Whitewater, Wisconsin, country-folk troubadour has recorded a handful of critically acclaimed albums spotlighting his carefully crafted original songs. NPR once praised him for possessing the ability to “find beauty in small…
In this video interview, King discusses her work and performs three songs from her multi-media show ‘The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body”
On this intimate Acoustic Guitar Sessions performance, Alejandro Escovedo recounts his past in three songs from throughout his career: "Five Hearts Breaking," one of the first songs he ever wrote; "Chelsea Hotel 78," about being at the New York landmark the night Sid Vicious killed girlfriend Nancy Spungen; and "Bottom of the World," an homage to his adopted hometown Austin, Texas.
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions filmed Brown shortly before a show at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California. He performed three songs—"Bones Bones," "Laughing River," and the haunting "Besham's Bokerie"—and shared a story about each song.
On the West Coast leg of a national tour, La Santa Cecilia visited the Acoustic Guitar Sessions studio to perform three songs.
Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley are A-list Nashville pickers. Individually or together, these talented players have contributed to sessions by Merle Haggard, Earl Scruggs, and Toby Keith, among others; organized the annual Nashville-based Resosummit; and picked up a 2016 Best Bluegrass Album Grammy nomination for their widely acclaimed album Before…
The Cactus Blossoms—siblings Jack Torrey and Page Burkum—possess sweet vocal harmonies reminiscent of the Everly Brothers.
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Fantastic Negrito first arrived on our radar in 2015 when he won NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Contest with his song "Lost in a Crowd," beating out nearly 7000 other submissions with his fresh approach to roots music.
With Berryhill on acoustic guitar and Bratt on cello, they played “Horsepower” and “An Affair of the Heart," as well as "Somebody's Angel."
The singer-songwriter duo of Nathan & Jessie craft catchy tunes often played in a Gypsy-jazz or Parisian cafe style.
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The duo performed a trio of songs from the new album: "Hobo's Lullaby," a ballad made famous by Woody Guthrie: "El Condor Pasa," by Simon and Garfunkel; and "Lullaby," by their father, Loudon Wainwright III.
He calls it trance blues. And Chicago-born bluesman Otis Taylor has honed his art into a razor-sharp, steely mojo machine, garnering critical acclaim for such albums as 1979's When Negroes Walked the Earth, 2008's haunting Recapturing the Banjo, and the recent Hey Joe Opus Red Meat.
Recently, the bandmembers stopped by to perform three songs from their new album, including "Brothers," "Angeline," and "Knoxville Foxhole."
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Rabbit Wilde visited the Acoustic Guitar studio to share songs from their new album The Heartland: "Howl," "The Long Way Down," and "Jackson, WY."
Since emerging as co-founder of the SF Bay Area psychedelic band Zero in 1984, Steve Kimock has slowly but surely developed a reputation as one of the most distinctive and inspiring guitarists in the jam band world—a
Watch as G. Love strums and fingerpicks his way through three originals: “Muse,” “Back to Boston,” and “Lil’ Run Around.”
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This electro-pop artist is steeped in bluegrass. Who knew? Dillon Hodges is a popular singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose recent album firekid (Atlantic) is the vanguard of a stealth campaign to bring bluegrass music to the masses.
