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The latest addition to the new Fender American Select range is the Fender Select Carved Maple Top Telecaster and it’s certainly special.

“Easy Fingerpicking Guitar” has to be the best step-by-step fingerpicking tutorial for beginners that exists. You’ll learn great technique immediately.

An excellent companion book for Gustavo Assis-Brasil’s “Hybrid Picking for Guitar.” A great source for lead guitarist whether you use hybrid picking or not.

Andrew DuBrock’s “Travis Picking” does an excellent job teaching not only the basics of Travis picking but the intermediate and advanced techniques, too.

Nick Torres reviews Oslo’s The Fabulous Flea Market Band at their August 9 show at the Black Cat in Washington, DC. See GN member Lars Kolberg play trombone!

A terrific “debut” CD from Ron Jackson, Norbert Marius and Matsuura Hiroyuki, three talented artists with a wealth of musical styles to draw upon.

Inside Outsider is one of those albums that demands attention but rewards the listener with astonishing depth and layering.

On April 10, 2011 Bob Dylan and his band played in Vietnam for the first time. They played an excellent show, rolling through an eighteen-song set that offered new arrangements on everything, not just the old songs but the new ones as well.

The Spider Capo is an excellent device for exploring the creative potential of your guitar. You can stay in standard tuning and still play open tunings with it.

Total Acoustic Guitar guides you through various steps to become more skilled and confident in the most important areas of playing acoustic guitar.

“The Musician’s Way,” by Gerald Klickstein, offers the reader a wealth of vital and practical information on how to make the most of practicing and performing, as well as tips on keeping at one’s best when it comes to playing. Highly recommended.

Guitar Noise’s favorite Scandinavian lap steel player’s second album is a wonderful tribute to the songs and stylings of Jimi Hendrix.

George Pittaway’s “Easy Roll Guitar Method” DVD is an incredible bargain at $15. It is highly recommend for anyone interested in hybrid picking and opening up their soloing. This is an ideal DVD for the advanced beginner and beyond.

Len Collins’ Guitar Breakthough DVD is a breath of fresh air. This DVD lets you sit in on seven “lessons” spread out over the course of three hours on two discs.

Nine Christmas songs done in an “easy jazz feel” – right down to the vocals straight from the 1940s to the wonderfully articulated piano lines.

While there is certainly more than enough guitar technique on display here, there is also a very welcome sense of melody and song. This alone makes “The Ninth Ring” worth the listen.

Nine songs that blend influences as diverse as Inglesias and Madonna. This is a thoughtful, soulful CD with many standout tracks.

Jan Jankowski’s Tunes for Solo Guitar consists of thirteen wonderfully crafted tracks of Jan playing his guitar like a magician who can blur the borders of traditional genres.

Wonderful melodic finger style guitar from someone who’s played with artists as diverse as Chet Atkins and the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra.

The latest release from a young, ambitious five-piece band out of Crown Point, Indiana who definitely know how to rock.