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Strings Magazine Design and Illustraton, September 2017

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Skip James

American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter, 1902-1969. Acoustic Guitar Magazine

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Booker White

Booker White, 1906-1977, was an American blues musician, singer and songwriter.  For Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Ideal Home Studio

Strings Magazine interviewed musicians about what their ideal home studio would look like.  Here's some visual highlights.  

Elizabeth Cotten

Elizabeth Cotten, 1893-1987, was an American folk and blues musician, singer and songwriter. Self-taught, left-handed, and on an upside-down guitar, Libba created a signature style called "Cotten picking". For Acoustic Guitar Magazine.

Fiddling

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R.L. Burnside

American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist, 1926-2005. Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Aly Tamboura

Tamboura learned to code in San Quentin's tech program The Last Mile.  Now he has a career in the tech industry.

Musicians Ry Cooder and Lalo Guerrero

And the story of Chavez Ravine.  For Acoustic Guitar Magazine. 

Mstislav Rostropovich, Cellist

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