Derk’s Discoveries: A Classical Take on Pete Seeger
By: Derk Richardson
December 14, 2020
Kronos Quartet’s new collaborative album pays tribute to the folksinging activist.
Derk’s Discoveries: The Deep Roots of Laurie Lewis
By: Derk Richardson
November 30, 2020
On “and Laurie Lewis,” the Berkeley-based multi-instrumentalist mines a career’s worth of friendships for a brilliant collection of duets.
Derk’s Discoveries: David Broza Celebrates the Spanish Guitar
By: Derk Richardson
September 12, 2020
The Israeli singer-songwriter makes a powerful statement--without words.
Tags: Guitar
New Album by Teja Gerken and Doug Young
By: Dan Gabel
April 28, 2020
Peghead Nation co-founder Teja Gerken releases Duets with fellow fingerstyle guitarist Doug Young.
Tags: News and Reviews, Recordings
Derk’s Discoveries: Irish Comfort
By: Derk Richardson
April 19, 2020
Marla Fibish brightens our days with Irish mandolin music.
Tags: Irish Music, Mandolin
Derk’s Discoveries: Brothers from Another Planet
By: Derk Richardson
March 14, 2020
Guitarists Jim McAuley and Scot Ray inhabit a Second Earth. You should too.
Tags: Guitar
Derk’s Discoveries: Stunning Formations
By: Derk Richardson
January 31, 2020
The string quartet Hawktail soars above the New Acoustic Music plain.
Derk’s Discoveries: Bruce Cockburn Is Speechless Again
By: Derk Richardson
December 20, 2019
On his new all-instrumental album, the 2017 Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee lets his guitars do the talking.
Tags: Fingerstyle, Guitar
Derk’s Discoveries: Que paso? “El Paso”—again.
By: Derk Richardson
November 27, 2019
The Carolyn Sills Combo revisits and reinvents the Marty Robbins classic.
Tags: Guitar, Songwriting
Derk’s Discoveries: Three of a Kind
By: Derk Richardson
July 24, 2019
On its riveting Rule of 3, Väsen brings seamless virtuosity and emotional depth to its original take on Swedish folk traditions.
Derk’s Discoveries: Michael Chapman’s Beautiful Melancholy
By: Derk Richardson
April 29, 2019
Youth may be wasted on the young, but age becomes the English acoustic guitar icon.
Tags: Guitar, Songwriting
Derk’s Discoveries: When Picking Is Your Passion
By: Derk Richardson
March 6, 2019
Tyler Grant and Robin Kessinger infuse their acoustic guitar flatpicking duets with unbridled joy.
Derk’s Discoveries: UK Primitive
By: Derk Richardson
November 12, 2018
Welsh-born Gwenifer Raymond: a new force in fingerstyle guitar
Tags: Guitar
Derk’s Discoveries: Pete Don’t Sing the Blues, But He Sure Can Pick ‘Em
By: Derk Richardson
September 11, 2018
On his new album, guitarist Pete Madsen yields the lead vocals to Celeste Kopel as they travel the blues highway from Mississippi to Chicago.
Derk’s Discoveries: Getting to Know Noah
By: Derk Richardson
August 7, 2018
Discover Canadian singer-songwriter Noah Zacharin, who's within six degrees of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Ralph Carney, and me.
Tags: Guitar, Singer-Songwriter
