myrick & cipriani

wonderlust: an intimate conversation, album, and tour

Pierre Bensusan

musicality matters most!

martin barre

electric? yes! acoustic? yes!

paul nelson

grammy-winning blues producer

foreigner goes acoustic

tom gimble shares the story

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myrick & cipriani

myrick & cipriani

wanderlust: an intimate conversation, album and tour "Wanderlust expressed the idea of being an explorer; the idea of searching for the frontier and going past it.”~ Brad Myrick Wanderlust reflects our longing to reconnect with special paths and places. It’s a perfect...

Pierre Bensusan

Pierre Bensusan

musicality matters most!"What is very important is to remember that the aim is not to play guitar, it's to play music.” ~ Pierre Bensusan Pierre Bensusan is an acoustic artist with few peers. He respects technique, of course, but regards it as necessary vocabulary and...

Martin Barre

Martin Barre

from jethro tull to solo work: electric? yes! acoustic? yes!"I always tell people, ‘Do what's yours and don't worry how good or bad it is, because if it's yours it's unique’. People have got nothing to compare it to anyway, and I think originality means so much.” ~...

Tom Gimble

Tom Gimble

foreigner goes acoustic, tom shares their story One day our manager said, "I'm going to book a show. You guys come out and do a whole acoustic set." The show sold out. Standing ovation." Mick Jones looks around and says, "I can't believe this just happened. That's...

artists

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myrick & cipriani

myrick & cipriani

wanderlust: an intimate conversation, album and tour "Wanderlust expressed the idea of being an explorer; the idea of searching for the frontier and going past it.”~ Brad Myrick Wanderlust reflects our longing to reconnect with special paths and places. It’s a perfect...

Pierre Bensusan

Pierre Bensusan

musicality matters most!"What is very important is to remember that the aim is not to play guitar, it's to play music.” ~ Pierre Bensusan Pierre Bensusan is an acoustic artist with few peers. He respects technique, of course, but regards it as necessary vocabulary and...

Martin Barre

Martin Barre

from jethro tull to solo work: electric? yes! acoustic? yes!"I always tell people, ‘Do what's yours and don't worry how good or bad it is, because if it's yours it's unique’. People have got nothing to compare it to anyway, and I think originality means so much.” ~...

Tom Gimble

Tom Gimble

foreigner goes acoustic, tom shares their story One day our manager said, "I'm going to book a show. You guys come out and do a whole acoustic set." The show sold out. Standing ovation." Mick Jones looks around and says, "I can't believe this just happened. That's...

Paul Nelson

Paul Nelson

step back with a grammy-winning blues artist and producer "I always went back to acoustic to give songs an earthiness, a pulse, a drive.” And while much of blues, today, is electric, the traditional blues guys were traveling minstrels playing acoustic guitars because...

Muriel Anderson

Muriel Anderson

meet a true fingerstyle maven "This is my voice. This is what I’ve been searching for my entire life. This sound.” Muriel Anderson believes in synchronicity. How else to explain the fortuitous manner in which she happened upon her prized David Taylor steel string...

David Wilcox

David Wilcox

creating his own extraordinary acoustic path "To me, acoustic music has always been about the audience being drawn in a little closer in a way that is for me revolutionary, vulnerable, powerful.” When I first came to acoustic music, to me it felt like revolution. It...

Eliza Gilkyson

Eliza Gilkyson

room full of stories, house full of guitars "I was touring with Andreas Vollenweider, and we were in Florida. We were playing at Miami Convention Center, or something. Some big hall. I got a note from somebody in the audience that said, “I have a present for you. Can...

videos

Sure, a picture’s worth a thousand words, but a video…

View From The Edge

View From The Edge

David Wilcox performing “The View From The Edge” at Music City Roots live from the Loveless Cafe on 5/21/2014.

Change of Anger

Change of Anger

David Wilcox performing “Change of Anger” live in Roseville, CA March 24, 2012.