Christopher Paul Stelling

3 weeks ago | acousticguitar.com | Mac Randall |Natalia Zukerman |Steve James |Christopher Paul Stelling

Sue Foley steps onto the stage in a bright pink suit, a well-worn guitar slung over her shoulder, and digs into a deep, driving groove. Whether she’s tearing through a Texas blues shuffle on her Telecaster or coaxing out the hushed warmth of a nylon-string guitar, her playing is rooted, rhythmic, and unmistakably hers. Over the decades, she’s built a career that’s equal parts fire and scholarship—an artist with both a deep love for the blues and a historian’s instinct for uncovering its stories.

2 months ago | acousticguitar.com | Christopher Paul Stelling |Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers |Nick Millevoi

Back in 1994, Lisa Loeb burst onto the pop scene with “Stay (I Missed You),” featured in the movie Reality Bites. Loeb’s song, built on her colorful chord voicings and R&B-style grooves on a Taylor guitar, became a touchstone of ’90s music, a companion to countless romantics mulling over breakups, and a major hit—earning Loeb a Grammy nomination and the distinction of being the first unsigned artist to top the Billboard Hot 100.

Dec 8, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Christopher Paul Stelling |Pat Moran |Karen Peterson |Mark Small

At first glance, Grisha Goryachev seems an unlikely torch bearer for flamenco guitar. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1977, descended from ancestors with Russian and Ukrainian lines. His forebears lived far from Andalusia, where flamenco music developed among the Romani people who migrated from India to settle in southern Spain in the ninth century.

Jul 16, 2023 | acousticguitar.com | Ben Fong-Torres |Adam Perlmutter |Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers |Christopher Paul Stelling

Not many bands can claim to have played together for well over 30 years—while its members are in their 40s. Nickel Creek, formed back when Chris Thile and Sara Watkins were seven and Sean Watkins was 12, is a special case. Chris and Sara were still teenagers when the band released the seminal 2000 album Nickel Creek, produced by Alison Krauss, which merged the sounds of bluegrass and Celtic music with contemporary song craft and went platinum.