Spring's issue of Guitarist's Acoustic quarterly talks to maestro Tommy Emmanuel about his stage set-up, new signature guitar and amp, plus interviews with Dominic Miller and John Smith, and reviews including Taylor, Art & Lutherie and more.
REMEMBERING RENBOURN
Editor’s Highlights
Guitarist Presents Acoustic: Spring
SOLID GOLD • A bull-hearted troubadour who wrote some of the tenderest of British acoustic albums
Gas Supply • Our pick of the month’s most delectable, wallet-bothering new gear
JARGON CRUNCHING
ALSO OUT NOW…
LOWERING THE TONE
ACOUSTIC GUITARS • Our pick of the instruments that charmed us most last year
Talking Point • Evolving the voice of the acoustic guitar…
Remembering JOHN RENBOURN 1944 – 2015 • John Renbourn’s death sent shockwaves throughout the acoustic guitar world. We asked Clive Carroll, who toured with John extensively, for his reminiscences about the man and his music
LORD OF ALL HOPEFULNESS
PEGGY SEEGER • Hailing from a house of legends and with a lifetime of musical wisdom to share, the original 1950s folk revival guitar heroine is a legend in her own right. Still at the forefront of her craft, Guitarist called in for a mid-tour visit with Peggy to talk about the trials, tribulations and the unexplored musical territory of female guitarists – and getting guitar lessons from Elizabeth Cotten…
LONNIE JOHNSON & EDDIE LANG • Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang were both star musicians in the 1920s – but it was when they challenged racial prejudice to work together as a team, fusing Lonnie’s bluesy licks with Lang’s jazz virtuosity, that they made guitar into an instrument that would dominate music for the next 90 years…
LANG’S TWANG
ACOUSTIC ACE
Blue Guitars • This revolutionary duo broke boundaries to create an important legacy
DJANGO REINHARDT • Few guitarists in the history of the instrument have inspired such devotion as the Belgian-born Gypsy genius Django Reinhardt. His infectious and, at times, outrageous guitar playing continues to delight, enthral and perplex generations of guitarists who fall under his spell
SUPER SELMER
THICK PICK
Gypsy Jazz • A tragic accident transformed Django’s style and revolutionised the genre
A Class Above • In 2018, Taylor rewrote the book and introduced new V-Class bracing on its Grand Auditorium models. For this year, the original V-Class concept is unveiled as a new round-shouldered dreadnought with a different voicing
TAYLOR BUILDER’S EDITION 717E & 517E GRAND PACIFIC £3,539 & £3,359
THE RIVALS
Sea Change • Guitarist gets the inside perspective on the Grand Pacific in Nashville with master luthier Andy Powers, who reveals “it’s like an entirely different thing than what we’re known for”
Electro Magnetic • Shipped with fingerboards full of trademark bird inlays, two newbies transcend the anonymity of the electro-acoustic flock with sharp features and some very exotic tonewood
Sweet ’N’ Low • With drop tunings becoming the norm among the low-slung fingerstyle crowd, baritones are enjoying their day in the sun. Let’s get ready to rumble…
NEW GEAR FOR 2019
A CLASS OF ITS OWN • The Taylor family continues to push the envelope
ATKIN GUITARS • This month, we head to Canterbury and the workshops of one of the UK’s fastest growing acoustic guitar builders…
ANATOMY OF AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR • Ever wondered what’s inside your acoustic guitar? We open one up to help explain what’s going on in there and how it affects your sound
SO YOU WANT TO BUY AN ACOUSTIC? • These are our 82 favourite guitars from the last three years of Guitarist’s review instruments. Get your...
