An accomplished musician, Guthrie plays piano, harmonica, a six and twelve-string guitar and at least a dozen other instruments.
As a young boy, Mtukudzi joined choirs to improve his singing talent and taught himself how to play a three-string guitar.
While his ramshackle piano playing has its own charm on recent albums, the twist this time around is his almost exclusive reliance on the electric 12-string guitar.
Veirs, who's been setting her observations to song since 1999, says she was in a writing slump going into this record, so she challenged herself with odd tunings on her nylon-string guitar.
Humberto Flores strummed a vihuela, or five-string guitar.
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And I started playing the 12-string guitar after really hearing Pete Seeger play and recording things like "Tambourine Man" with Jim McGuinn(ph), Roger McGuinn(ph), and so this guitar - I'm so glad you asked about this guitar because this is patterned after a D-40, a Martin D-35 that I played for years, and it's my signature Judy Collins Martin guitar.
The warmth and clarity of the guitar's plucked string sound allows this music to seem relaxed and complicated at the same time.
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While listening to Electric Ladyland a few years ago, Balakrishnan says he was struck by how Hendrix's writing for guitar suited the style of string quartets.
Since the tech modifies the guitar's natural harmonics and string vibrations, the LEV-96 is getting cozy on both traditional acoustic guitars and those outfitted with pickups in its present state.
Though Darondo owes much of his style to Al Green, the track gives Green's best songs a run for their money: The song's every element is sublime, from the opening guitar line to Ray Dobard's sweeping string arrangement to Darondo's delicate vocals, which reveal a fragile vulnerability.
The John Jorgenson Quintet features Stephan Dudash on five-string viola, Gonzalo Bergara on rhythm guitar, Charlie Chadwick on bass and percussionist Rick Reed.
Fairly or not, Blackshaw has come to represent the "academic" side of the acoustic guitar (as opposed to the raw American Primitive sound of the late Jack Rose), so it's a surprising and somewhat ballsy move to put aside the full, resonant sound of a 12-string acoustic for the staccato feel of the electric guitar, with all the rock baggage that instrument carries.
"She was sobbing hysterically and I just sat down with a guitar trying to make her feel better, " says Benanti, whose string of Broadway credits includes "Gypsy, " ''Nine" and "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
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