Last month, Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music put on a 50th Anniversary concert that included performers like Jeff Tweedy, Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn and David Bromberg. I’m sorry I couldn’t make the show because I would have loved to have seen the performance in the photo by Roger McGuinn, who attended the school in the late 1950s, and Frank Hamilton, who was his teacher back then. McGuinn is featured in our latest issue and talks a bit about taking lessons at the school. Also, in issue 6, we ran a photo essay about the school by Eric Futran, who, along being an excellent photographer, takes harmonica lessons there.-MJS (Photo by Steven Gross)
January 10th, 2008
We’re pleased to announce that the Winter 2007 issue of the Fretboard Journal is in music and book stores everywhere. And it may very well be our best issue to date. Features include: a lengthy cover story on jazz guitarist John Scofield (along with plenty of great “guitar porn” shots of his Ibanez and related gear); an interview with Norman and Nancy Blake; an interview with the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn; a look at the guitar designs of acclaimed dealer George Gruhn; a peek inside the workshop of Nashville luthier Manuel Delgado; and a visit to 78 collector Joe Bussard. If you are a subscriber, you should already have your copy. If you aren’t a subscriber, or you just want another copy, you can find the new issue on newsstands and in guitar stores everywhere right now.
November 23rd, 2007