Podcast 473: Joe Henry & Blake Mills (Live from the 2024 Fretboard Summit)

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 Juli 201744min

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 Juli 201724min

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 Juni 201754min

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 Juni 201745min

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 Juni 201725min

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 Juni 20171h 58min

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 Juni 20171h 14min

Minnesota's Tom Nechville may very well be the closest thing the banjo world has to Leo Fender. For the last 30 years, he's innovated the five-string banjo with revolutionary products like the Heli-Mo...

25 Maj 201753min