Acoustic Guitar

Join us for conversations that explore why we play, collect, build, obsess over guitars and how rewarding it is to make music of our own. Each month, your hosts at Acoustic Guitar magazine connect you with great guitarists – from preeminent pickers and fingerstyle sensations to trailblazing songwriters, luthiers, and the acoustic guitar community at large.

Acoustic Guitar is a music podcast hosted by Acoustic Guitar magazine, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Acoustic Guitar magazine hosts Acoustic Guitar, a music show with 39 episodes published.

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  Episode #2

  Meet the Acoustic Guitar Teaching Artists

  Apr 24, 20251h 11mS4

  <p>Five awesome Teaching Artists—Isa Burke, Lisa Liu, Mamie Minch, Sean McGowan, and Thu Tran—want to help you grow as a guitarist!</p><p>They're sharing engaging insights and invaluable guitar wisdom each and every week in the Acoustic Guitar Patreon community. To celebrate the launch of this new series, we hosted a live hangout with the TAs. It was a whole lot of fun and featured songs, stories, and a window into the musical lives of these great guitarists. We hope you enjoy this replay of the event!</p><p><b>Join the Acoustic Guitar Patreon Community at t...

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  Episode #1

  Courtney Hartman

  Jan 15, 202542 minS4

  <p>Guitarist and singer-songwriter Courtney Hartman discusses her evolution from flashy flatpicker to introspective songwriter, the staying power of old-time music, her relationship with Bourgeois Guitars, and shares insights from teaching music.<br/><br/>Additional Resources:</p>Visit Courtney Hartman's website.Learn to play her arrangement of “Cumberland Gap”Join our Patreon community for access to more podcast episodes, lessons, and workshops.<p><br/>The Acoustic Guitar Podcast theme music is composed by Adam Perlmutter and performed for this episode by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers.</p><p>This episode is hosted, directed, and edited by Joey Lusterman and produced by Tanya Gonz...

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  Episode #13

  Get Recording Ready

  Sep 25, 202443 minS3

  <p>It's easier than ever to grab a guitar and a microphone and hit record—but how can you get the most out of your recording session? We sat down with Joe Gore and Molly Miller, both guitarists and studio pros, for a conversation about how to prepare.<br/><br/>Thanks to G7th for sponsoring this episode. Learn about the Performance 3 and the other ranges of G7th capos at www.G7th.com. </p><p>Additional resources:</p>Listen to Part 2 on Patreon.Visit Molly Miller's website.Visit Joe Gore's website and watch his video lesson for Acoustic Gui...

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  Episode #12

  Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore

  Aug 28, 202446 minS3

  <p>We catch up with Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Dave Alvin while they’re on the road touring their new album, Texicali. Great collaborators and friends, our guests reflect on writing and playing together, defying genre expectations, acoustic guitars, and (most importantly) having a good time.<br/><br/>Support the show:</p>Join us on PatreonMake a donation on PayPalGive a rating and review<p>Additional Resources:</p>Visit Dave Alvin's website.Visit Jimmie Dale Gilmores’s website.Learn to play Alvin's "King of California" in the May 2007 issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine.Learn to play "Dallas" by the Flatlanders in t...

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  Episode #11

  My First Guitar Encore

  Jul 31, 20241h 13mS3

  <p>We launched the Acoustic Guitar Podcast two years ago and the show has grown a lot in that time, thanks to listeners like you! This re-release of our first-ever episode includes Part Two which previously had only been available to our Patreon supporters. </p><p>In this episode, we share stories of first guitars. Tune in for renowned musicians Eric Bibb, Bruce Cockburn, Courtney Hartman, Richard Thompson, Badi Assad, Sharon Isbin, and Tommy Emmanuel; heartwarming, inspiring, and surprising tales from the community; plus previously unheard recordings of Doc Watson and Michael Hedges; and Dick Boak demonstrates the first instrument h...

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