Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Tim Farrell
The fingerstylist performs a cover of the Allman Brothers' "Little Martha," as well as his own songs "Joyride to Tranquility" and "Rosewood Alley"
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Dawn & Hawkes
Acoustic-guitar duo Dawn & Hawkes recently stopped by the AG offices in advance of their upcoming SXSW shows. Miranda Dawn and Chris Hawkes met five years ago in an Austin bar (he asked her to dance) and quickly realized their romantic chemistry inspired them creatively. Watch them perform “Love Your Forever,” “Almost Mine,” and “Silver Line,” all…
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents: Lukas Nelson of the Promise of the Real
“This new album is the culmination of what the band can do together, but I’ve got to say, it is and it isn’t, because it was recorded two years ago now,” says singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader Lukas Nelson, when asked about the new Promise of the Real album, Something…
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Justin King
Just King performs two songs: The ballad “Sisters,” and one of his finest percussive instrumentals, “Taps.” A talented cat, for sure.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents the New West Guitar Group
For New West Guitar Group's Acoustic Guitar Sessions performance, the trio played three instrumentals including Dave Brubeck's whimsical classic "Blue Rondo A La Turk."
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Collective Soul
Collective Soul members Ed Roland and Jesse Triplett perform the band's songs "She Said" and "The World I Know," and close with the 2015 single "AYTA"
AG Sessions Presents Laurie Lewis
In this special edition of Acoustic Guitar Sessions, bluegrass guitarist Laurie Lewis and mandolinist Tom Rozum perform the Carter Family classic "Who's That Knocking ?" and "Won't You Come and Sing for Me?
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Maurice Tani
Maurice Tani has been a popular fixture in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for many years, dating back to stints with a pair of eclectic retro party bands, the Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra and Big Bang Beat.
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Ron Jackson: Winter NAMM 2016
One of AG’s very own guitar instructors, Ron Jackson, stopped by the Acoustic Guitar booth at NAMM 2016 to do a little jazz shredding on an Eastman AR810CE-7 archtop. Watch him put his magic to the Dorothy Fields/Jerome Kern standard “The Way You Look Tonight,” from Jackson’s 1991 album, A Guitar Thing. Also check out his most recent release,…
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Michael Franti
Michael Franti occupies a unique position in the current music scene. He was a founding member of late-'80s experimental funk band the Beatnigs -- which combined noisy, industrial punk and hip-hop with hard-hitting political songs, eventually evolving into the marginally more accessible Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik, in tow with keyboardist Jason Hart and percussionist Doug Yowell, took time out of his tour Suzanne Vega to stop by the AG offices and perform three songs off his latest electro-acoustic album Legerdemain.
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Quiles & Cloud
Quiles and Cloud were a long way from their home in San Francisco in 2014, when they captured the audience at FreshGrass, the early-fall festival in the Berkshire Mountains where this act took a big step onto the national scene by winning the FreshGrass duo contest. Part of their prize…
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Front Country
This San Francisco-based progressive bluegrass band Front Country, featuring guitarist Jacob Groopman and fronted by vocalist and guitarist Melody Walker, has won rave reviews from critics and peers alike.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Shawn Colvin
Fresh from the release of her recent Uncovered, a critically acclaimed collection of cover songs, Shawn Colvin stopped by the AG studio to perform a trio of songs.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents The Milk Carton Kids
Watch Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan perform the title track from their latest album, then enjoy the writing partners' dry repartee as they attempt to describe how their guitar styles complement one another.
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Dave & Phil Alvin
Dave, 60, and Phil, 62, reunited in 2002 for the first time in a decade
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Joan Armatrading
If you never had a chance to see Joan Armatrading live, this riveting session is the next best thing!
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Jennah Bell
Rising star Jennah Bell recently stopped by the Acoustic Guitar offices to perform three of her stunning original songs. Watch the Brooklyn-based, Oakland-grown songwriter—who trained at Berklee College of Music—play “Phoenix Lights,” “Candied Daylight,” and “The Common Cold” and reveal the backstories behind her mysterious lyrics wrapped in gorgeous melodies. Bell is hard at work on her debut full-length album, so…
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Richard Osborn’s Steel-String Ragas
Break out the champagne, confetti and noisemakers—this marks the 100th entry in the Acoustic Guitar Sessions series! From the outset, it has been the mission of Sessions to capture a broad range of artists working in many different styles, from soulful singer-songwriters to fingerstyle wizards, “name” performers and rising talents.…
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents ALO’s Dan ‘Lebo’ Lebowitz
For this Session, Lebo eschewed his primary electric axe in favor of his preferred acoustic, a beautiful Santa Cruz Vintage Jumbo crafted by founder Richard Hoover.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Andy Powers
Andy Powers was an independent luthier, local musician, and avid surfer, living and playing around Southern California, when Bob Taylor enlisted him as kind of a right-hand man—head luthier of Taylor Guitars.
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Nathan Bell
When Bell arrived at the Acoustic Guitar studios to do an AG Sessions recently, he played a pair of guitars and sang a pair of songs that will move you to your core. Watch and weep.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance)
The talented Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance recently stopped by the Acoustic Guitar offices to perform three songs in his hypnotic psych-folk style.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents: Robert Earl Keen
Watch the folk-country icon perform two songs from his illustrious back catalog, which often draws inspiration from his everyday experiences as a lifelong Texan.
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents the Wild Reeds
The Wild Reeds—Kinsey Lee, Sharon Silva, and Mackenzie Howe—recently stopped by the AG offices to perform three songs in their irresistible style of dreamy California folk.
