Tag: finger-style guitar

Alien Guitars

Richard Leon Johnson & Alien Guitar

Richard Leo Johnson Returns with a Trip Even Further Out on the Limb Richard Leo Johnson first came to our intention in 1999 when he released a pair of albums on Blue Note Records. He was a ferocious finger-style guitarist, taking the techniques developed by Michael Hedges and pushing them further. Then he went off…

Cover Me Over, the Echoes Cover Show.

You can’t pull back the sheets of a new album these days without finding someone covering tunes by other people.  There’s a whole cottage industry of people just covering Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and full album covers are almost the norm.  Today we go undercover to hear music by artists you know performed by other artists.…

International Guitar Night Lands

It’s only the first month of the year, but already this has to be THE tour for finger-style guitar enthusiasts.  International Guitar Night is in it’s 11th year and tomorrow they launch their US tour at Crossroads Music in Philadelphia. This is a monster show of finger-style guitarists that we’ve featured for the last 4…

A Decade of International Guitar Nights

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-IGN2010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS10 Years of International Guitar Nights You can hear an audio podcast of this interview with music There are a few all acoustic guitar ensembles out there, but the revolving members of International Guitar Night lives up to it’s name with a global cast of players.  Celebrating its…