My new blues guitar hero03.19.08

I’ve said before that I was directed to Mississippi John Hurt by way of Bruce Cockburn. It was not for his personal charm but for his technique. This musician has had a huge influence on Bruce’s approach to acoustic guitar picking so once again, if it’s good enough for Bruce then it’s good enough for [...]



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OMG you gotta hear it to believe it10.04.07

Now I already have a good pick-up system in my Larrivee L-03 but when went into my favorite guitar store, the 12th Fret in Toronto, I feel madly in love with the L.R. Baggs IMix. Now I have been looking to update my pick-up system in my L0-3 lately and found many systems in which [...]



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Guitar side ports09.28.07

The one thing that I see in the evolution of the acoustic guitar today is its link with the past from Canada’s own, Glenn Gould. He used a unique approach while playing in his later years, around 1983, when he took away part of the piano body to let the sound come out of the [...]



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