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Mar 22 2022

Keb Mo Though - Interview for Guitar.com

It was a huge pleasure to talk to legendary Bluesman Keb Mo about his beautiful new album Good To Be..., his life and work and his experiences for guitar.com - you can read the whole interview here and I…

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Nov 11 2021

Interview - Richard Fortus - Guns N' Roses - Gretsch Signature Falcons

It was an absolute pleasure to chat with Guns N' Roses supremo Richard Fortus whose beautiful new signature Gretsch Falcons have just dropped!

Lucky dude!

You can read my chat with the man himself right here in the luxury pixels…

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Oct 10 2021

Wonderful Small-Body Guitars - with "The Devil Is In It" author John Stubbings

It's always a joy to spend time with my friend John Stubbings - John is the author of one of the most beautiful books on the acoustic guitar that I have ever read The Devil Is In it - if…

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Sep 23 2021

A Guitar Made With Human Teeth - Ervin Somogyi

While trawling my archive of hours of raw footage from the first season of Luthier Stories I came across this clip where legendary guitar builder Ervin Somogyi talks about the creation of an unusual instrument made with decayed woods and…

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Sep 23 2021

Interview - Andy McKee

For many years my friendship with the sublime talent that is Andy McKee has been based primarily on intermittent but consensual nose-boopage. 

Boop

Boop

Double Boop!

Neither of us knows exactly why but that's not relevant right now. The main…

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Mar 6 2021

Things get weird when you have 1 Million Followers! - Life on the Fretboard with Alan Gogoll

My friend Alan Gogoll came out of nowhere (well, Australia) with his astonishing Bell Harmonic technique and promptly became king of Spotify, Lord of Instagram and Thrice Blessed keeper of the Algorithm. With an audience that numbers in the millions…

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Dec 12 2020

The World Of Modern Luthiery - With Martin Simpson

British guitarist Martin Simpson is more than just an award-winning internationally successful musician. He is, to my mind, pretty much the epicentre of the modern luthier-built acoustic guitar scene on both sides of the Atlantic.

In fact, I'll go one…

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Jul 28 2020

Watch me chat with Paul Heumiller!

Since I began my Instagram Live video series I have had more requests to chat with Paul Heumiller of Dream Guitars than any other figure in the modern acoustic scene. I was very happy to sit down and talk guitar…

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Jun 29 2020

Watch me chat with Al Petteway!

Al Petteway is a giant of the world acoustic guitar scene. A Grammy-Award winning instrumentalist, Al's work is familiar to many from his albums of original music as much as his collaborations with Ken Burns and Dream Guitars of North…

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Jun 3 2020

Watts x Polecastro - Instagram Live - Saturday 6th June

I hope you'll join me on Saturday 6th June for a live Instagram chat with a giant of the acoustic scene, the mighty Tony Polecastro! Tony will be familiar to many of you as the host of Acoustic Tuesday…

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May 26 2020

Watts x Greenfield Instagram Live Video

Chatting with super luthier Michael Greenfield about any subject whatsoever is one of life's real pleasures. Here, in all its rough and ready glory is an hour of exactly that - from the advantage that a solid foundation in guitar…

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May 21 2020

A Kostal Guitar for President Jimmy Carter

In a recent chat with Jason Kostal he told me about a fascinating project he'd undertaken to create an instrument for 39th President of the USA Jimmy Carter!

President Carter with his new Kostal OM

The guitar is made from…

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May 19 2020

Watts x Greenfield - Instagram Live - Saturday 23rd of May

Montreal is one of my favourite cities in the world, not least because it is home to one of my favourite people in the world, the legend of modern acoustic guitar luthiery that is Michael Greenfield. 

My friendship with…

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May 14 2020

Recording Acoustic Guitar Q+A with Nashville Producer Rory Rositas

Nashville studio ace Rory Rositas has worked with many of the biggest names in acoustic music including Bryan Sutton, John Jorgenson and most recently Tommy Emmanuel whose wonderful new album The Best of Tommy Songs was tracked in only…

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Apr 28 2020

Watts x Bashkin - Instagram Live - Friday 1st May

Chatting with Colorado super luthier Michael Bashkin is one of life's great pleasures and I was looking forward to spending quality time with the man himself in Berlin next week. As you'll be heartbreakingly aware by now, that won't be…

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Mar 31 2020

Interview with DA Musical HQ - Berlin

It was a real pleasure to talk with Dominic Adelbert of DA Musical Radio in Berlin today for a live stream interview where we look at all sorts of different things from inspiration from non-guitarists, modern luthiery and sustainability, and…

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