Jerry, Chet and Merle
Jul 18, 2019
I met John Knowles, C.G.P., when I was maybe 23 years old, so we've known each other a long time. For the past ten years, he's been telling me to come check out CAAS – the annual meeting of the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society, also known...
The Fingerstyle Choice
Apr 25, 2019
The great jazz guitarist Gene Bertoncini once observed, “I think I’m like most guitarists in that I like almost any kind of music played on the guitar.” I know I’m the same, and yet you know the snag: when there’s so...
Gypsy Jazz Chords For Fingerstyle Blues
Aug 23, 2017
Gypsy Jazz And String (Tie) Theory
As a steel guitar player in the early 1990s, I went through a brief but unfortunate bolo tie phase, one in which I found confirmation of the notion "like attracts like." Which is to say, once the news is out...
