Son House

American Delta blues singer and guitarist, 1902-1988. For Acoustic Guitar Magazine

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Resistance At Standing Rock

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Charley Patton

American Delta blues musician, 1891-1934. For Acoustic Guitar Magazine

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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. 

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Waxsimile website musician portraits

 

Strings Magazine Design and Illustraton, September 2017

Layout and illustraton

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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