Like a lot of musicians, I tend to wear several hats in the recording studio. Along with engineering and production, I do a lot of my own acoustic guitar work. The issue here is that in order to ...

Israeli guitarist Ido Bukelman has developed a highly idiosyncratic style since releasing his first solo album, City Tail (OutNow, 2009). At that time, he tended to reference saxophonist Ornette ...

Whatever style of acoustic guitar you most want to play, it’s worth dipping a toe into as many genres as you can. Most genres have a handful of defining signature sounds. By getting those signatures ...

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Back in 1981, Nick Webb and Simon James, two enterprising British music school students, decided to start an instrumental acoustic jazz band focused on dueling steel- and nylon-string guitars. Mind ...

"Quique and I were working on a traditional Andean folk song from Chile one day called 'Tata San Juan,' " acoustic guitarist Alex de Grassi recalls. "At the same time, I was showing him the chords to ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

How do you define what makes the best jazz guitars? That’s a question for the ages. Perhaps any good electric guitar could do the job, as long as it wasn’t fitted with nuclear-powered humbuckers. Why ...

In 1939, Charlie Christian auditioned for Benny Goodman, who heard the future and hired the electric jazz guitar pioneer on the spot, forever changing the sound of jazz. Still, as forward thinking as ...