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The latest episode of Life On The Fretboard - my podcast for Fretboard Journal - is now life and my guest is the inimitable Wizz Jones - a lynchpin of the British finger style guitar scene since the early 1960s…

I’ve had several requests to upload the theme music to Life On The Fretboard - my podcast for Fretboard Journal. I wrote this music one afternoon as I was editing on of the first interviews and I liked it…

The latest instalment of my podcast for Fretboard Journal is now live. In this episode of Life On The Fretboard my guest is the wonderful Italian singer songwriter Emma Tricca!  

I have loved Emma's work for years and it was…

Legendary guitarist and producer Will Ackerman is my guest for the latest episode of my Fretboard Journal podcast Life on The Fretboard.

Will Ackerman is a visionary composer, fingerstyle guitarist and producer. As the founder of Windham Hill records…

I’m very happy to announce that Episode 3 of Life On The Fretboard - my podcast for Fretboard Journal - has now gone live and my guest for the episode is the outrageously talented Alan Gogoll. 

In a beautiful conversation…

I have loved Emma Tricca’s work for years and it was a real pleasure to welcome her to my studio. 

You may have seen her on tour with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Robyn Hitchcock and Dinosaur Jr. The song…

Episode 2 of my podcast for Fretboard Journal Life On The Fretboard is now live and my guest is the sensational acoustic guitar talent Jon Gomm!

Jon and I first met in 2001 and a lot has happened since then…

Tony Polecastro will be familiar to many of you as the host of the Acoustic Life YouTube channel and Tony's Acoustic Challenge - although we've never met in person we do stay in touch and I was very happy to…

The first episode of my new Fretboard Journal podcast LIFE ON THE FRETBOARD is now live across all pod delivery systems and my guest for this conversation is the wonderful Tony McManus.

Described by the late John Renbourn as “The…

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…

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…