Lewis Pesakov

Aug 11 2010 11:10AM
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...

John Jorgenson

Jul 1 2010 1:00AM
AS EVERYONE KNOWS, JOHN JORGENSON WAS REVERSE engineered from alien artistic technology (AAT). More...

Enver Izmaylov

Jul 1 2010 1:00AM
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 the More...

Clive Carroll

Jun 1 2010 1:00AM
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...

Justin Adams

Mar 1 2010 1:00AM
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...

Geoff Pesche on Abbey Road Online Mastering with mp3 audio

Feb 27 2010 1:25AM
WE COVERED ABBEY ROAD’S ONLINE MASTERING service in the March 2010 issue of Guitar Player. More...

John Renbourn on Davy Graham

Mar 30 2011 11:30AM
“I could go on for hours about Davy,” says legendary fingerstyle guitarist John Renbourn. More...

Pierre Bensusan

Feb 1 2011 1:00AM
Composition is a marathon, not a sprint, for acoustic guitarist and vocalist Pierre Bensusan. More...

Rez Abbasi

Feb 1 2011 1:00AM
Pakistani-born guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi is in many ways the embodiment of East-West fusion. More...

World Lobi Traoré

Oct 1 2010 1:00AM
ONE OF MALI’S MOST HARD-ROCKING GUITARISTS, LOBI Traoré, died suddenly at 49 in Bamako this past June. More...

Guy Buttery Feature Interview Outtakes

Feb 16 2010 10:00AM
WHEN I INTERVIEWED South African acoustic guitar virtuoso Guy Buttery, he provided more material than I could fit into the print magazine. More...

Nathaniel Braddock

Dec 1 2009 6:00AM
CHICAGO’S OCCIDENTAL BROTHERS DANCE Band International play a blend of West African palm wine and highlife, Congolese music, and jazz. Guitarist and bandleader Nathaniel Braddock still chuckles at the band’s name, a twist on More...

Vieux Farka Touré

Nov 1 2009 5:55AM
AS THE SON OF MALIAN MASTER GUITARIST Ali Farka Touré (1939-2006), Vieux Farka Touré had some enormous shoes to fill when he opted to forego military service for a musical career. On his eponymous 2006 debut—a multifaceted More...

Video: Matthew Montfort's Purple Raga

Sep 10 2009 1:45PM
The Ancient Future guitarist demonstrates his modern raga derived from the solo notes in Hendrix's "Purple Haze." More...

Béla Fleck’s Africa Project

Aug 1 2009 2:05AM
SOUTH AFRICAN GUITARIST AND SINGER songwriter Vusi Mahlasela grew up hearing the banjo, though mostly at missionary gatherings or in carnivals where the banjo evoked shades of American vaudeville. Since the early ’70s, More...

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