It's Strictly Whatever with Harry Manx and Kevin Breit

Oct 24,2011
“Strictly Whatever [Stony Plain] is the most accessible CD that we’ve done so far,” says Harry Manx of his third outing with fellow Canadian guitarist and vocalist Kevin Breit. “Kevin’s songs are catchy and easy to sing More...

Nguyên Lê

Oct 21,2011
French guitarist and composer Nguyên Lê is arguably the most potent creative force in the rapidly evolving world-jazz-fusion movement. Born of Vietnamese parentage and raised in the international musical mecca of Paris, Lê More...

World Lobi Traoré

Oct 1,2010
ONE OF MALI’S MOST HARD-ROCKING GUITARISTS, LOBI Traoré, died suddenly at 49 in Bamako this past June. Traoré was a soulful singer and master fingerpicker on acoustic and electric who could haunt listeners with rootsy balladry More...

Tony McManus on Current vs. Vintage Craftsmanship

May 1,2011
“FRESHLY HANDCRAFTED GUITARS stand up to any guitar from the past,” professed Celtic guru Tony McManus at the close of his September 2010 GP feature. In this follow up, he talks about what he looks for in an acoustic guitar, More...

Marc Ribot Makes Silent Movies

May 1,2011
By Kurt GottschalkRibot piloting Sun Ship: (L to R) Mary Halvorson, Chad Taylor, Jason Ajemian, Ribot.MARC RIBOT’S ENIGMATIC PLAYING HAS earned him live and studio gigs with numerous major artists ranging from Elvis Costello More...

Bill Frisell and Vinicius Cantuária on Lagrimas Mexicanas

May 1,2011
BILL FRISELL AND VINICIUS Cantuária have crossed paths numerous times over the years, including working together in Frisell’s groundbreaking world-fusion ensemble the Intercontinentals in 2003, and appearing on each other’s 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...

Justin Adams

Mar 1,2010
BRITISH GUITARIST JUSTIN ADAMS HAS devised a gritty fusion of North and West African traditions and rock ’n’ roll. Adams spent a good part of 2009 touring Europe and North America with his Gambian collaborator Juldeh Camara 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...

Enver Izmaylov

Jul 1,2010
THE ELECTRIC GUITAR HAS NO BOUNDARIES FOR ENVER IZMAYLOV. The virtuoso musician of Crimean Tatar heritage (a Turkic ethnic group residing in Crimea, located on the northern coast of the Black Sea) is a legendary performer in More...

John Jorgenson

Jul 1,2010
AS EVERYONE KNOWS, JOHN JORGENSON WAS REVERSE engineered from alien artistic technology (AAT). How else can you explain his preternatural abilities on acoustic and electric guitar, double bass, mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, 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...

Pierre Bensusan

Feb 1,2011
Composition is a marathon, not a sprint, for acoustic guitarist and vocalist Pierre Bensusan. Throughout his 35-year career, the French-Algerian virtuoso has treated his pieces as something to nurture and evolve over More...

Rez Abbasi

Feb 1,2011
Pakistani-born guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi is in many ways the embodiment of East-West fusion. His family relocated to Los Angeles when he was four years old, he later traveled to India as a student of master tabla player More...

Lewis Pesakov

Aug 11,2010
ON A RECENT VISIT TO NEW YORK CITY’S Highline Ballroom, Los Angeles-based guitarist Lewis Pesakov strapped on his ’68 reissue Les Paul and led his band, Fool’s Gold, through an unlikely set of Sahara desert rock, More...

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