Tommy Emmanuel

Oct 20,2008
FINGERSTYLE SUPERSTAR TOMMY EMMANUEL won’t give himself a break. Despite having to stop touring in 2007 due to exhaustion, he’s back on the road again, and is booked solid through mid-2009. At these one-man guitarfests (not to More...

Liona Boyd

Nov 14,2006
FROM PLAYING IN A COURTHOUSE TO ENTERTAIN “bored stiff” O.J. Simpson jurors at the request of Judge Lance Ito to giving a command performance for the British Royal Family, classical guitarist Liona Boyd has never met an More...

John Renbourn on Davy Graham

Mar 30,2011
“I could go on for hours about Davy,” says legendary fingerstyle guitarist John Renbourn. “Back when I was a teenager, the craze was skiffle, which was the British attempt at playing American folk music. Because of skiffle, More...

Clive Carroll

Jun 1,2010
English guitar virtuoso and composer Clive Carroll has a vast musical palette and a sweeping creative vision. Adept at banjo, flattop, and nylon-string guitar, and equally at home playing fingerstyle or wielding a flatpick, More...

Orchestral Maneuvers Jeff Beck Creates Instrumental Masterpieces On Emotion amp Commotion

Jun 1,2010
There’s a nomadic spirit in Jeff Beck’s personality that causes his muse, and often his physical being, to push on to new frontiers even when the place he’s at would seem to be the perfect altar for him to preach the gospel of More...

Muriel Andersons All-Star Guitar Night

Jul 1,2010
ALWAYS ONE OF THE HOTTEST TICKETS AT THE NAMM Show, All-Star Guitar Night moved to the beautiful Orange County Pavilion for its Winter 2010 concert, packing the art-deco-styled theater with gear manufacturers, musicians, and More...

Liona Boyd

Jan 1,2011
“No one could explain why all of my technique on the guitar was slipping away from me,” says classical guitar legend Liona Boyd. “My right hand felt so different, I would end up crying every time I picked up the guitar—and More...

Geoff Pesche on Abbey Road Online Mastering with mp3 audio

Feb 27,2010
We covered Abbey Road's Online Mastering service in the March 2010 issue of Guitar Player. Here, Abbey Road engineer Geoff Pesche talks about his approach to mastering in general, and specifically about mastering GP’s test track, More...

Tim Brady

Feb 1,2011
Canadian guitarist and composer Tim Brady has been doing his best to increase the electric guitar’s presence in classical music since 1988. “Brahms didn’t write much electric guitar music,” he quips. Brady’s own work runs the More...

101 Forgotten Greats & Unsung Heroes

Feb 1,2007
It’s no secret that the talent, technique, and creative force of magnificent and awe-inspiring guitarists runs deep. And going deep doesn’t mean studying only the obvious guitar heroes. You have to get out on the fringes, and More...

Sharon Isbin

Aug 1,2009
SINCE PERFORMING VIVALDI’S “CONCERTO in D Major” with the Minneapolis Orchestra at the age of 14, Sharon Isbin has emerged as one of the world’s preeminent classical guitarists. Isbin, the creator and director of the Guitar More...

Lyle Workman

Aug 1,2009
LYLE WORKMAN IS SOMETHING OF A MULTItasker. Or he’s schizophrenic. Or maybe he just can’t say no. How else can you explain a career path that has taken him from pop funksters Bourgeois Tagg to playing wingman for More...

John Jorgenson on One Stolen Night and Istiqbal Gathering

Apr 8,2010
Master guitarist John Jorgenson is featured in the July 2010 issue of Guitar Player. In that story he talks about his two latest albums, the "live in the studio" One Stolen Night by the John Jorgenson Quintet, and Istiqbal More...