“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.