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Wainwright looks back on his life, his legacy, and his love, no punchline needed.

Wainwright looks back on his life, his legacy, and his love, no punchline needed.

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Did you know you can expand the sonic possibilities of your acoustic guitar simply by plugging in? Doug Young, the recording engineer who wrote the book on acoustic amplification, reveals how.

Eric Bibb shares captivating stories and insights about his musical upbringing, the limits and opportunities of being known as a blues player, and the role music plays in uniting and shaping the world today.

Join Happy Traum, Jane Miller, Jess Baron, and Sean McGowan for an uplifting roundtable on teaching (and learning) guitar.
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Bluegrass superstar Molly Tuttle discusses playing music with friends and how a surprising wood made its way into her signature dreadnought.

Listen to the first-ever episode of The Acoustic Guitar Podcast, a new monthly show from your friends at Acoustic Guitar magazine.

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Richard Thompson performs "Turning of the Tide" on his Lowden F-35 acoustic guitar at the Freight & Salvage for Acoustic Guitar Sessions

The editors of Acoustic Guitar magazine are collecting stories for an upcoming project. Please call us at (510) 215-0020 and leave a voicemail, telling us the tale of your first guitar. Did you save up your paper-route money and head…

The Whitmore Sisters perform the song “Friends We Leave Behind” from their album Ghost Stories.
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Badi Assad is an enchanting performer, to say the least. Assad's technical mastery allows her to fully explore the guitar’s sonic range, and her vocals, especially here on “Zoar,” are transcendent.

Classical guitarist Laura Snowden performs "The Parting Glass" and discusses her Christopher Dean guitar in this Acoustic Guitar Session in Place.

You can feel a sense of exploration in Pedigo’s playing but there's also a discernible reverence for avant-garde acoustic sounds reminiscent of John Fahey and Leo Kottke.

Indie folk rocker Eleanor Buckland performs acoustic versions of two new songs from her debut album, "You Don't Have to Know"
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Watch Christopher Paul Stelling play 2 new fingerstyle guitar pieces from his new album, Forgiving It All, on a vintage 1941 Martin 00-18.

For this Acoustic Guitar Sessions in Place Sarah McQuaid performs a DADGAD arrangement of "Autumn Leaves" in the historic St. Buryan Church, in Cornwall, England.

For this Acoustic Guitar Session in Place, Cameron Mizell and Charlie Rauh perform “Local Folklore” on a pair of Collings guitars.
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Filmed in Nashville, this Acoustic Guitar Sessions in Place video features Tommy Emmanuel performing & teaching how to play “Halfway Home” from The Best of Tommysongs.

The English folk guitarist performs a song from his latest album on a 1950s Gibson J-200, a guitar he bought sight-unseen online

For this Acoustic Guitar Session in Place fuzzy Australian rocker Hamish Anderson performs a very stripped down version of his new single, “Morning Light” on his Clapton signature 000-28M.
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Folk singer-songwriter and guitarist Abigail Dowd performs an enchanting fingerstyle instrumental song "St Vrain" in our latest Acoustic Guitar Sessions series.

Adams performs “I Long for Seventeen,” a song he wrote and recorded with the bluegrass great Tony Rice.

For this AG Sessions in Place Jontavious Willis performs a country blues interpretation of “Midnight Hour Blues, (Wee Midnight Hours)” by Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell.
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Over the last 10 years the writers at Acoustic Guitar have called Andy McKee a “sensation,” a “brilliant sonic storyteller,” and “one of the foremost fingerstyle guitarists in the world.” The accolades still ring true in this AG Session in…