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Category Archives: Acoustic Music
Lead Guitar and Follow Guitar
You have spent a fair amount of time developing your chops, getting comfortable moving around the fretboard, honing your ear for exciting and explosive lead lines. Now, you are a lead guitarist and you want to let loose. When the … Continue reading
Four Ways to Make Yourself Desirable
While this may seem like a topic more suited for a glossy newsstand magazine than for a music blog it is an important subject for guitar players. There are four ways to approach your playing that will help make you … Continue reading
Learn the fretboard
Being a valuable accompanist requires you to play a complementary role to the player or singer you are accompanying. One of the ways to do that is by offering a different timbre or sound quality from the main parts. This … Continue reading
Air
I was visiting a friend’s recording studio today and listening to some songs he was in the process of mixing. This was a singer/songwriter sort of project, but the instrumentation was pretty full. On most tracks there were lead and … Continue reading
Guitar: An American Life
Several years ago, while browsing in a large, well-known chain bookstore near Union Square in Manhattan I happened across a book with the intriguing title Guitar: An American Life. I bought it and read it at least twice, maybe three … Continue reading
Posted in Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Music, Americana, Electric Guitar, Guitarists
Tagged Acoustic Guitar, Americana, Electric Guitar, Guitar, Vintage Guitars
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Mark Knopfler – Accompany Yourself!
Name as many acts as you can where the lead singer, main songwriter and lead guitarist are the same person. The list is pretty short. For my money, and there’s not too much of it, Mark Knopfler has to be … Continue reading
David Rawlings
David Rawlings is a multi-instrumentalist, primarily guitar, who uses his substantial abilities in an accompanist role. Rawlings writes and records often with Gillian Welch. The music these two craft sounds as if it came from another era and another place. … Continue reading
Finding New Music and New Artists
How do you find new music and new artists? The ubiquity of the internet and the rise of sites dedicated to posting music have certainly democratized the process of getting music distributed and greatly expanded the amount available. At the … Continue reading
Posted in Acoustic Music, Album Reviews, Roots Music
Tagged Americana, new artists, new music, Roots Music, Singer Songwriter
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Bo Ramsey
Bo Ramsey is a guitar player and producer. Working predominately in the Americana genre he has produced albums for artists like Lucinda Williams, Greg Brown and Iris Dement. He also appears as a guitarist on these and other artists’ recordings … Continue reading