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The September/October 2021 issue is out!
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Buy the latest issue here (or sign up for an annual subscription and get this issue as a digital edition free, so you can start reading right away!) From Adam Perlmutter, Editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine: I’ll never forget the first time I heard Lucinda Williams. It was on a weeknight sometime in the early 2000s, at Sunny’s Bar, a waterfront saloon at the remote edge of Brooklyn, New York, that had been around since the 1890s. At the time, my musical tastes leaned toward the challenging and the strident. But sitting there at Sunny’s, enjoying a bourbon and hearing Williams’ “Car...
Changes to our shipping rates
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We asked for your feedback about the store … And we heard you loud and clear - shipping and handling charges are the number one thing you want us to improve!
New Book Release: Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Explorations by Steve James
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How to Play the Blues Like Skip James
Posted by Kelsey Holt on
Skip James used open D minor to create insistently repeating musical motifs, often based on just one or two chords, for hypnotic effect. Use the song "Devil Got My Woman" to start working through double-stops and steady bass in this lesson.
Play Like Mississippi John Hurt
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Hurt’s guitar accompaniments were generally short and melodic, but he hardly ever played two consecutive verses exactly the same way. In demonstrating his style of playing, John Sebastian, the jug band and rock’ n’ roll veteran, zeroes in on the pocket (rhythmic feel) and riffs that make Hurt’s music move.