Guitar Obsession
Ragtime & Blues Guitar Collection on YouTube
Do not go to YouTube if you value your life. There is too much there and yes, you will be enriched, but your laundry will never happen. Amazingly, there’s even lots of content for people like me who obsess about pre-war era acoustic guitar blues. I just found this insane channel where someone even more [...]
Guitar Obsession
I’m obsessed with acoustic guitars.
Not ‘the acoustic guitar,’ or ‘acoustic guitar music,’ I mean I’m obsessed with acoustic guitars themselves. Not just playing them, but handling them. Not just the craftmanship, or just the beauty of the object (that too,) but I’m enchanted by the wood itself, mesmerized by the shine of the varnish. [...]
The Best Guitar for Fingerstyle
Discussions of guitars and guitar styles have gone on for so long they’ve probably contributed to global warming. But for guitarists, this is just the kind of discussion we’ll never finish.
The question of which guitars are best for fingerstyle is one of these eternal subjects, and as always, with so many variables, it ultimately [...]
Obsessed with Acoustic Guitar
Sheesh. How many interests can last a lifetime? Since the day at age 12 when I picked up my older sister’s guitar and started fooling around, I just can’t get my mind off guitar. It doesn’t matter what else is going on, at any point a certain percentage of my brain capacity is taken up [...]
