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Versatile guitarist Nathaniel Murphy can be seen and heard on YouTube and Instagram, where he has over 450,000 followers, and demos for Chicago Music Exchange.

Nathaniel Murphy and Steve Eisenberg join the PG staff to wax poetically on what their signature pedal might sound like.

Question: What would your signature pedal sound like?

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Learn the key elements to jumpstart your fingerpicking journey and improve your overall technique. Caitlin covers classical-style technique and uses it in a modern setting to enhance your fingerstyle technique for all styles/genres.
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Dakota Dave Hull plays a cozy set in Japan with Takasi Hamada on his right, and Xavier Ohmura on his left.

Photo by Kosuke Nagai 

A chance glance at a Stefan Grossman LP led our columnist to discover the acoustic connections between the U.S. and Japan.

When acoustic guitarists like myself hear an album that just sounds so good, we might fuss less about gear and home in more on performance and atmosphere. Indeed, those were the things that blew me away on country-blues guru Stefan Grossman’s album from the late ’70s, Acoustic Guitar. Dynamic playing with a healthy big-room sound, the production was a far cry from a lot of Grossman’s late-’60s output, some of which was recorded in closets on budget reel-to-reel decks.

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