Hello Troubadourians! I have two pedalboards. Originally, one was for my electric guitar and the other was for my acoustic guitar. I built them when I...
Hello Troubadourians! I like to rehearse. Maybe it’s more accurate to say that I like to be prepared. I play in two very different bands; one...
Hello Troubadourians! Many years ago, I was at a Rod Stewart concert, and he opened the show with “Reason to Believe,” “I Don’t Want to Talk...
Hello Troubadourians! I have been missing from the pages of the Troubadour for three months now, due to demands from my day job and some health...
Hello Troubadourians! This column is sort of a continuation of last month’s column. I’ve been asked many times about how to get a good tone without...
Hello Troubadourians! As much as I like guitar gear, I don’t like having to carry a lot of gear to gigs and sessions. There was a...
Hello Troubadourians! I was first attracted to the guitar by listening to my uncle Bob play his classic 1959 Fender Telecaster Custom through a Fender Tweed...
Hello Troubadourians! I recently started giving guitar lessons to a friend from work. I usually don’t give private lessons—for various reasons—and certainly not to people I...
Hello Troubadourians! I am a member of a demographic that has a prestigious and sometimes derided position in the world. I’m a Boomer and we seem...