Peter Mulvey

Nov 17, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Adam Perlmutter |Emile Menasche |Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers |Peter Mulvey

Ani DiFranco achieved her iconic status by relentlessly storming the 1990s, during which she played well over 3,000 shows, always taking the stage with an acoustic guitar and fake nails electric-taped to her fingers to achieve her kinetic rhythms. For every year of that decade she released an album on her self-owned indie label, Righteous Babe.

Sep 4, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers |Whitney Phaneuf |Greg Cahill |Peter Mulvey

Chris Smither has been a force on the American folk and blues scene for over half a century, touring nationally and internationally at a steady pace on the arc of up-and-comer to journeyman to veteran to living legend. His driving rhythmic thumb and tapping feet have anchored audiences in the groove, while his harmonized guitar lines and craggy baritone have articulated a world-weary yet hopeful gravitas. Smither was raised in New Orleans, where his father was a professor at Tulane University.