Posts Related to: Folk/Bluegrass/Country

This past Christmas I received a gift of a James Taylor DVD called “One Man Band.” This recent recording was filmed at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in July 2007. In this performance, JT goes back to his roots – a guitar, a voice, and an audience. Watch a portion of the DVD here (this contains …

Bob Lefsetz is a notoriously tough customer. A well-known voice in the music industry, he’s been writing the Lefsetz Letter (now a blog) since 1986. Self-described as “beholden to no one and speaking the truth” he is the quintessential fan: an outspoken critic of any form of music that doesn’t serve the listener first and …

I am often asked whether guitar or piano is more suited to late-life beginners.
How you want to use an instrument is always important in making a decision about one over another. In the case of guitar versus piano, if you want to sing Folk, Country, Pop or Rock songs, guitar would be a good choice.
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In Italian, the word capo is a shortened version of capotasto. The word is literally ”head” plus the word tasto, which means finger board. We know it as any mechanical device that extends flat across the strings of a string instrument. The capo essentially changes the pitch of the instrument by one half step per fret.
It is commonly …