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A guide to Old-School blues guitars and their modern counterparts. Here are a tips that may be useful for selecting your next acoustic guitar.

Here we explore the styles and history of fingerstyle guitar, as well as some of the more influential players and examples of the technique in different genres.

A parlor guitar is a compact and narrow-waisted instrument, generally smaller than Martin's single 0 size. The name comes from the rooms in which the guitar was typically played in the late 19th century.

Next week, blues and folk duo Hot Tuna are playing a string of shows throughout the WAMC listening area.

Yancey Blues At its best, music should relax your mind, massage your soul and make you feel good. Vicksburg Blues from Pat Donohue & Butch Thompson is music at its best. The dynamic duo creates an album that harkens back to the great a...   more &raquolbums of yesteryear, mixing Delta blues, ragtime and Dixieland jazz. As if pulled from the backdrop of a Woody Allen movie, this stunning 19-track album features songs by Leroy Carr, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Blind Blake and Butch s mentor...

Danny Brooks & Lil Miss Debi – Are You Ready? The Mississippi Sessions (Hill House): “Texanadians Danny Brooks and Lil Miss Debi (formerly of Toronto Canada) met Tom Easley of AVA Entertainment in 2019 and discussed making a record, making a real recording, blending old school with new tricks and now have a recording that some listeners are calling “new vintage”. Recorded in Raymond Mississippi (a suburb of Jackson), Tom assembled some stellar musicians such as Chalmers Davis and Sam B...