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Acoustic Voices: A Guitar Podcast

Aug 20, 2021

These days, Lloyd Baggs (LR Baggs) is synonymous with great acoustic guitar pickup systems. But it hasn't been easy. This self-taught tinkerer - who started building one-of-a-kind acoustic guitars for legendary musicians in the '70s and early '80s - only turned to sound amplification after an eye-opening...


Jun 21, 2021

What makes for a sustainable tonewood? What does FSC-certified actually mean? On today's Acoustic Voices Podcast, we learn both and a lot more from Nicholas Weber, the founder of Guitar Tonewoods. 

Weber has spent decades working with forest managers and guitar companies, sourcing far-flung woods that will...


Jun 3, 2021

Ingenuity. We love it in our guitars and in our musicians. For this episode, we talk to a pair of artists who may not be on your radar yet, but will be soon: the Native Heart's Jon Torrance is a fanatical music educator and musician based in Michigan. He relishes the new, whether it's genres, covers, or skills like...


Apr 22, 2021

As interest in domestic guitar woods reaches an all-time high, we talk to Oregon-based Cyril Jacob, who handpicks the unique Oregon myrtlewood that Breedlove Guitars uses for their instruments. Every day, Jacob is on a virtual scavenger hunt: traveling through the Pacific Northwest sourcing fallen trees and trees that...


Mar 16, 2021

Guitarist Chris Arndt is a throwback of sorts: An early obsession with classic rock had him sitting in with bar bands while he was still in elementary school. Today, he's one-half of the brother-sister duo, Jocelyn and Chris. With a few stellar albums already under their belt, they're navigating the music industry in a...