Steve Baughman

Sep 13, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Steve Baughman |Adam Perlmutter |Maurice Tani |Lisa Grossman Liu

The beloved standard “Sweet Georgia Brown” was written in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, with lyrics by Kenneth Casey. The inspiration for the song reportedly struck when Bernie met a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, Dr. George Thaddeus Brown, in New York City. Brown mentioned that the Georgia General Assembly declared his daughter, who had been born in 1911, should be named Georgia after the state.

Aug 21, 2023 | julieroys.com | Steve Baughman |Julie Roys

Popular worship leader and political activist Sean Feucht lamented in his 2016 book, Integrity: Character of the Kingdom, that “We, as a generation, have lost our integrity.”Yet, a review of criminal and court records reveal that Feucht has a history of minor criminal offenses, including one in which he apparently tried to deceive law enforcement. A detailed law enforcement report, obtained by The Roys Report (TRR), shows Feucht asked a friend to withhold key information from police.

Aug 9, 2023 | acousticguitar.com | Steve Baughman |Adam Perlmutter

Julian Lage has a list of potential song titles—he estimates there are easily more than a thousand of them—that he has been gathering for the last 15 years. One of those names, “Double Southpaw,” recently found its music when the guitarist-composer recorded the composition as a duet with bassist Jorge Roeder for his latest album, The Layers.

Jun 16, 2023 | acousticguitar.com | Scott Nygaard |Steve Baughman |Stéphane Wrembel |Alan Barnosky

Billy Strings’ November 2022 release, Me/And/Dad, has had remarkable chart-topping success, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums Chart, No. 7 on the Top Country Albums Chart, and even No. 37 on the Billboard Top 200. It’s even more notable considering this is his most traditional bluegrass record to date, a collection of 14 classic songs performed with his stepfather and musical mentor, Terry Barber.

May 7, 2023 | acousticguitar.com | Cathy Fink |Dylan Schorer |Doug Young |Steve Baughman

About Acoustic Guitar lessons. Learning to play the guitar takes more than just figuring out what fingers go on which frets and which strings to pluck or pick. You need to absorb these mechanics, for sure, but you also need to know how different techniques fit together and how you can put them to use in service of making music with soul and spirit.