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
Derk’s Discoveries: A Day in the “Life Of” …
By: Derk Richardson
July 23, 2018
Eight years in coming, the new album by 12-string guitarist Steve Tibbetts is a beautiful rumination on what it means to be human.
Tags: Guitar
Derk’s Discoveries: Duck! It’s Baker Time.
By: Derk Richardson
April 24, 2018
A spate of new releases by Duck Baker puts the fingerstyle guitarist's eclectic career in perspective.
Tags: Guitar
Derk’s Discoveries: Lighting up the Strings for Christmas
By: Derk Richardson
December 20, 2017
Holiday guitar instrumentals for stringing your lights and trimming your tree.
Tags: Guitar
Derk’s Discoveries: All in the Family
By: Derk Richardson
November 13, 2017
Loudon Wainwright III leads his audience into the promised land of aging.
Tags: Guitar, Singer-Songwriter
Derk’s Discoveries: Oud Do You Love
By: Derk Richardson
October 12, 2017
Anouar Brahem, the Tunisian master, crafts a cross-cultural jazz masterpiece.
Tags: Guitar
Derk’s Discoveries: Getting Better All the Time
By: Derk Richardson
September 16, 2017
May I introduce you to SF String Trio’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
Derk’s Discoveries: Flying Home
By: Derk Richardson
August 28, 2017
John Reischman and the Jaybirds soar through gospel, old-time, bluegrass, and Beatles songs on their latest recording.
Derk’s Discoveries: James Elkington’s 21st-Century Chamber Folk
By: Derk Richardson
August 9, 2017
The brilliant fingerstyle guitarist and cryptic songwriter bridges his English roots and Chicago's progressive indie scene.
Tags: Guitar, Songwriting
Derk’s Discoveries: The Duo 2.0
By: Derk Richardson
June 12, 2017
Scroggins & Rose bring New Acoustic Music full circle and then take it beyond
Derk’s Discoveries: The New Cosmic Cowboy
By: Derk Richardson
May 12, 2017
Bluegrass and honky-tonk star Marty Stuart takes a Left Coast turn and goes on a vision quest Way Out West.
