American Delta blues musician, 1891-1934. For Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Stage Fright
Strings Magazine
Tuning
Strings Magazine
Tampa Red
Tampa Red, 1904-1981, was an influential Chicago blues guitarist/singer-songwriter. He played a golden national steel guitar with a slide. Sometimes he played pop music and also developed a bawdy and humorous type of blues called Hokum. His style of music is a bridge between traditional rural blues and the urban electric.
Waxsimile website musician portraits
Strings Magazine Design and Illustraton, September 2017
Layout and illustraton
Skip James
American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter, 1902-1969. Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
For Ukulele Magazine. Layout by CD Joey Lusterman
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.
Birthday Invitation
Fiddling
Strings Magazine
Home Recording Equipment
Spot illo for Strings Magazine
R.L. Burnside
American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist, 1926-2005. Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Beating Burnout
Layout and spot illo
Ron Carter
Strings 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.
Leonard Cohen
Portrait and spot illo for Tikkun Magazine. Thanks Ari!