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After 30 plus years behind the drum kit, sessions working or touring nationally with bands of all genres, including John Driskell Hopkins Band, To...
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Meklit is an Ethio-American vocalist, songwriter, composer and cultural activist, making music that sways between cultures and continents. Known f...
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Meg Baird’s last decade would be remarkable by any artist’s standards. She co-founded and recorded three albums with Espers — one of the most dist...
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Despite the name, Matt the Electrician is no longer an electrician, focusing instead on a music career that has spanned the course of two decades,...
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When you listen to Over the Rhine, the supremely talented musical couple comprised of Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler, you quickly fall unde...
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Vance Gilbert burst onto the singer/songwriter scene in the early 90's when buzz started spreading in the folk clubs of Boston about an ex-multicu...
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Winner of Guitar Player Magazine’s "Guitar Superstar" award in 2008, Vicki plays her own percussive style of 'slap-tap' acoustic guitar, and has b...
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Searching for the shaman that lives inside the guitar has led Willy Porter on a musical and personal odyssey spanning over two decades, 11 albums,...
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Joe Robinson is a true force in the pantheon of exceptional artists in modern music, and he has joined an exclusive group of elite performers whos...
In this very special edition of Riffage, we have a compilation featuring 50 Singer-Songwriters You Should Know to stream via Spotify or Download. Enjoy the musi...
I used to wonder how people who played in various open tunings could remember the chords, fingerings, and notes when going from one tuning to another. It seemed...
Winter may be here, but we don't let that get us down — prepare thy ears and hearts for burnin' music from the artists and educators featured in this editio...
As country music and country guitar playing become increasingly more popular, there are several techniques that are crucial to capturing that true country sound...
It’s not news that the music biz is a tough business for musicians, even more so today than ever before. You can only imagine how many mega doses of conviction,...
Some players you can just passively “enjoy” as you watch them. Then there are others that you can’t help but very actively say “HOLY SMOKES” when you watch! And...
We’re always looking forward to the next Mike Zito session for all of the reason mentioned in the article featured elsewhere in this issue of Riff. But there’s ...
We average over a hundred sessions a year here at TrueFire. We’re either working on a new project with an artist that we’ve worked with in the past, or we’re pr...
Playing One Chord:
If you think about it, this skill is one of the most fundamental and basic of all we do on the guitar, and one of the most important to mast...
A rite of passage for all aspiring blues guitar players occurs when they first move beyond their primary influences and discover the guitarists that influenced ...
When teaching my students how to properly practice or giving a workshop on practicing, the first thing I discuss is a concept I call “Set Up Your Practicing So ...
Something special for you this issue! Included in this special edition of Riffage are two volumes of hits from Riff from the artists featured in this magazi...
Portrait photographer, Annie Leibovitz said, “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
We can relate...
