Podcast 157: Remembering Bill Collings
Our dear friend Bill Collings, founder of Collings Guitars & Mandolins, passed away on July 14, 2017 after a long battle with cancer. We're working on a tribute for Bill in the next issue of the Journ...
19 Jul 201739min
Podcast 156: Lluís Gómez
Twenty years ago, Lluís Gómez heard Banjo Paris Session, an album featuring the playing of Jean-Marie Redon and Bill Keith. It completely changed this Spanish musician's life. Gómez would go on to obs...
13 Jul 201744min
Podcast 155: Jas Obrecht
Today we're talking to Jas Obrecht, acclaimed music journalist and editor. Jas is the author of the recently published anthology, Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Cent...
7 Jul 201724min
Podcast 154: Eric Schoenberg and Dana Bourgeois
Thirty years ago, luthier Dana Bourgeois (Bourgeois Guitars) and performer/vintage guitar dealer Eric Schoenberg teamed up to create a guitar that was at once both very traditional and very forward-th...
30 Jun 201754min
Podcast 153: Luthier Nate Wood (Stahman Guitars)
On this week's Fretboard Journal Podcast, we talk to luthier Nate Wood, out of Springfield, Oregon. Nate regaled us with guitarmaking tales at last month's La Conner Guitar Festival so we quickly hatc...
22 Jun 201745min
Podcast 152: Singer-Songwriter Vikesh Kapoor
The music of singer-songwriter Vikesh Kapoor has always defied logic. Here's a 20-something artist—born in small town Pennsylvania to immigrants from India—who seems more inspired by Pete Seeger, John...
14 Jun 201725min
Podcast 151: Luthier Mark Whitebook
These week, we talk to acclaimed guitarmaker Mark Whitebook. In the 1970s, Whitebook had a cult following for his handmade guitars and a client list that included James Taylor, Carly Simon, Phil Keagg...
8 Jun 20171h 58min
Podcast 150: Meagan Wells Interviews Jason Verlinde
For our 150th episode of the Fretboard Journal Podcast, we turn the tables: Luthier Meagan Wells (guest on episode #134) interviews Fretboard Journal publisher / editor Jason Verlinde. We talk about t...
3 Jun 20171h 14min
