Acoustic Guitars Sessions Presents Kaki King
In this video interview, King discusses her work and performs three songs from her multi-media show ‘The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body”
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Alejandro Escovedo
On this intimate Acoustic Guitar Sessions performance, Alejandro Escovedo recounts his past in three songs from throughout his career: "Five Hearts Breaking," one of the first songs he ever wrote; "Chelsea Hotel 78," about being at the New York landmark the night Sid Vicious killed girlfriend Nancy Spungen; and "Bottom of the World," an homage to his adopted hometown Austin, Texas.
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Greg Brown
Acoustic Guitar Sessions filmed Brown shortly before a show at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California. He performed three songs—"Bones Bones," "Laughing River," and the haunting "Besham's Bokerie"—and shared a story about each song.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents La Santa Cecilia
On the West Coast leg of a national tour, La Santa Cecilia visited the Acoustic Guitar Sessions studio to perform three songs.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley
Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley are A-list Nashville pickers. Individually or together, these talented players have contributed to sessions by Merle Haggard, Earl Scruggs, and Toby Keith, among others; organized the annual Nashville-based Resosummit; and picked up a 2016 Best Bluegrass Album Grammy nomination for their widely acclaimed album Before…
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents the Cactus Blossoms
The Cactus Blossoms—siblings Jack Torrey and Page Burkum—possess sweet vocal harmonies reminiscent of the Everly Brothers.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Fantastic Negrito
Fantastic Negrito first arrived on our radar in 2015 when he won NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Contest with his song "Lost in a Crowd," beating out nearly 7000 other submissions with his fresh approach to roots music.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Cindy Lee Berryhill and Renata Bratt
With Berryhill on acoustic guitar and Bratt on cello, they played “Horsepower” and “An Affair of the Heart," as well as "Somebody's Angel."
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Nathan & Jessie
The singer-songwriter duo of Nathan & Jessie craft catchy tunes often played in a Gypsy-jazz or Parisian cafe style.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents the Wainwright Sisters
The duo performed a trio of songs from the new album: "Hobo's Lullaby," a ballad made famous by Woody Guthrie: "El Condor Pasa," by Simon and Garfunkel; and "Lullaby," by their father, Loudon Wainwright III.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Otis Taylor (with Anne Harris)
He calls it trance blues. And Chicago-born bluesman Otis Taylor has honed his art into a razor-sharp, steely mojo machine, garnering critical acclaim for such albums as 1979's When Negroes Walked the Earth, 2008's haunting Recapturing the Banjo, and the recent Hey Joe Opus Red Meat.
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents the Brothers Comatose
Recently, the bandmembers stopped by to perform three songs from their new album, including "Brothers," "Angeline," and "Knoxville Foxhole."
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Rabbit Wilde
Rabbit Wilde visited the Acoustic Guitar studio to share songs from their new album The Heartland: "Howl," "The Long Way Down," and "Jackson, WY."
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Steve Kimock
Since emerging as co-founder of the SF Bay Area psychedelic band Zero in 1984, Steve Kimock has slowly but surely developed a reputation as one of the most distinctive and inspiring guitarists in the jam band world—a
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents G. Love
Watch as G. Love strums and fingerpicks his way through three originals: “Muse,” “Back to Boston,” and “Lil’ Run Around.”
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Firekid (aka Dillon Hodges)
This electro-pop artist is steeped in bluegrass. Who knew? Dillon Hodges is a popular singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose recent album firekid (Atlantic) is the vanguard of a stealth campaign to bring bluegrass music to the masses.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Tim Farrell
The fingerstylist performs a cover of the Allman Brothers' "Little Martha," as well as his own songs "Joyride to Tranquility" and "Rosewood Alley"
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Dawn & Hawkes
Acoustic-guitar duo Dawn & Hawkes recently stopped by the AG offices in advance of their upcoming SXSW shows. Miranda Dawn and Chris Hawkes met five years ago in an Austin bar (he asked her to dance) and quickly realized their romantic chemistry inspired them creatively. Watch them perform “Love Your Forever,” “Almost Mine,” and “Silver Line,” all…
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents: Lukas Nelson of the Promise of the Real
“This new album is the culmination of what the band can do together, but I’ve got to say, it is and it isn’t, because it was recorded two years ago now,” says singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader Lukas Nelson, when asked about the new Promise of the Real album, Something…
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Justin King
Just King performs two songs: The ballad “Sisters,” and one of his finest percussive instrumentals, “Taps.” A talented cat, for sure.
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents the New West Guitar Group
For New West Guitar Group's Acoustic Guitar Sessions performance, the trio played three instrumentals including Dave Brubeck's whimsical classic "Blue Rondo A La Turk."
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Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Collective Soul
Collective Soul members Ed Roland and Jesse Triplett perform the band's songs "She Said" and "The World I Know," and close with the 2015 single "AYTA"
AG Sessions Presents Laurie Lewis
In this special edition of Acoustic Guitar Sessions, bluegrass guitarist Laurie Lewis and mandolinist Tom Rozum perform the Carter Family classic "Who's That Knocking ?" and "Won't You Come and Sing for Me?
Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Maurice Tani
Maurice Tani has been a popular fixture in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for many years, dating back to stints with a pair of eclectic retro party bands, the Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra and Big Bang Beat.
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Ron Jackson: Winter NAMM 2016
One of AG’s very own guitar instructors, Ron Jackson, stopped by the Acoustic Guitar booth at NAMM 2016 to do a little jazz shredding on an Eastman AR810CE-7 archtop. Watch him put his magic to the Dorothy Fields/Jerome Kern standard “The Way You Look Tonight,” from Jackson’s 1991 album, A Guitar Thing. Also check out his most recent release,…