The San Francisco Bay Area duo the Easy Leaves—Sage Fifield, playing a 1965 Gibson ADJ-45 and singing lead and harmony, and Kevin Carducci, playing an old German-made upright bass and singing lead and harmony—share songwriting duties and a love for the outlaw California-country tradition echoed in the music of Merle…

Sporting tight three-part harmonies and driven by a trio of acoustic guitars, including an Epiphone Masterbilt Century archtop and a pair of Gibson J-45s, the Wild Feathers stopped by the Acoustic Guitar Sessions studio to perform “Help Me Out,” “Sleepers,” and “Lonely Is the Lifetime,” an ode to Gram Parsons…

Caudle performs the tender ballads "Carolina Ghost," "Red Bank Road," and "White Dove's Wing," inspired by Guy Clark's cinematic songcraft.

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…

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…

Recently, the bandmembers stopped by to perform three songs from their new album, including  "Brothers," "Angeline," and "Knoxville Foxhole."

Rabbit Wilde visited the Acoustic Guitar studio to share songs from their new album The Heartland: "Howl," "The Long Way Down," and "Jackson, WY."

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…

“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…

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.

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.

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.

Watch Hubbard perform "Mr. Musselwhite's Blues," "Stone Blind Horses," and "Train Yard Blues," in his singular style of gritty, bluesy country.

Versatile singer-songwriter Jackie Greene offers a pair of tunes from his Back to Birth album, plus a Grateful Dead classic.

While on tour for her new album Reckless Skyline, singer-songwriter Caitlin Canty stopped byAcoustic Guitar to play three songs on her 1930s Recording King guitar and talk about her recent move to Nashville. Watch Canty, joined by pedal steel and regular guitarist Eric Heywood (Ray LaMontagne’s Pariah Dogs, Tift Merritt, The Pretenders), perform “Get Up,” “I Never,” and “Southern Man.”…

Kathy Kallick and friends drop by for an intimate performance and interview. A veteran of the Northern California bluegrass scene, Kathy Kallick is a powerful singer and songwriter whose rootsy, well-crafted music is full of deep passion. Kallick recently visited the AG studios (along with mandolin player Tom Bekeny and Dobro…

A longtime favorite of the festival circuit, Hot Buttered Rum delivers a heartfelt, tuneful string-band sound that is sure to put a smile on your face.

Oakland’s T Sisters— Erika, Rachel, and Chloe Tietjen—have been singing and performing together since they were kids. They deliver the kind of seamlessly intertwined harmonies that only a family can muster. With influences ranging from the Indigo Girls to the Andrews Sisters, the T Sisters have been turning heads at festivals…

Grace Askew plays a couple country tunes.

Sure, the Defibulators spell their name wrong and look like art-damaged hipsters, but who cares? The Brooklyn combo's rugged string-band music is so charged-up, it'll get your heart beating again no matter how they spell the cardiac device they named themselves for.