The Fretboard Journal Guitar Podcast

Today we're talking to Brooklyn-based guitarist and Matador recording artist Steve Gunn. Deeply inspired by John Fahey and the entire primitive folk movement, Gunn is equally talented as a singer-song...

12 Jan 201839min

On this week's podcast, we talk to bluegrass icons Del, Ronnie and Rob McCoury of the Del McCoury Band. We chat about Del's Martin's, including his dark top D-18, Ronnie's Loar mandolin, the rigors of...

5 Jan 201857min

On this week's podcast, Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn stop by the Fretboard Journal and interview each other!  This episode is sponsored by RetroFret Vintage Guitars and Dying Breed Music.  Need a ...

16 Dec 201731min

On this week's podcast, we talk to filmmaker Drew Roller, the mastermind behind the new documentary 'Acoustic Uprising.' Roller tells us how, thanks to YouTube, he discovered the new guard of fingerst...

16 Dec 201725min

Kurt Bloch is a legendary figure in Seattle's music scene since his formation of the Fastbacks in the late '70s. On this week's podcast, we talk to Bloch about growing up in Seattle, the creation of h...

7 Dec 20171h 7min

On this week's Fretboard Journal Podcast, we talk to the amazing guitarist Joel Paterson. Joel has just released a new record of instrumental Christmas songs called Hi-Fi Christmas Guitar (Bloodshot R...

1 Dec 201726min

Few guitarmakers travel the globe as much as Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars. On any given day, he may be at Taylor's massive El Cajon factory, at his ebony mill in Cameroon, on Hawaii replanting koa tre...

23 Nov 20171h 3min

Back in the 1980s, Lindy Fralin didn't set out to be one of the world's most-trusted pickup winders, he just wanted to earn a living as a guitarist. With a tight budget, he'd buy cheap guitars and fix...

15 Nov 201737min