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Just as all ukuleles are not the same, all ukulele strings are not the same either! In recent months I have been experimenting with a number of different types with some fascinating results… The ukulele…

I used to watch Jools Holland’s “Later” show with great interest as well as his “Hootenanny” show which appears each New Year’s Eve. Increasingly I started watching and fast forwarding through the footage trying to…

I have been listening to Steve Earle for many years ever since my good friend from Nashville Michael Ross introduced me to “Guitar Town”. Steve is a great lyricist and writes terrific songs that have…

I was alerted to Pete Howlett’s work after watching the following BBC video short and decided to take a closer look at his instruments. After seeing this movie short I decided to commission a baritone…

When I was in Austin recently I visited Hill Country Guitars to look at some walking dulcimers created by Kevin Jones. Here’s some information from his site about himself “Twenty plus years of instrument building,…

I just returned from Texas and spent some time interviewing Daren from Fire Eye Development. Darren Appelt and Justin Jacobs have in my opinion created some quite amazing preamps that work brilliantly with acoustic instruments.…

The first words I heard from Bill Collings in person when I was heading out to meet him with my trusted Collings UC1 in hand were “UKULELES SUCK!” I turned around to see the one…

I just got back from an amazing evening interviewing Jake Shimabukuro . I knew that Jake was a seriously talented musician but never expected such a wonderful in depth discussion about music. We talked about…