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Hello everyone!

Posted on November 11, 2020 by fretgenie

It has been a while since I last did a blog post (and this will be a short one to get my feet wet again). Now that the U.S. election has happened and a potential COVID vaccine has been announced, … Continue reading →

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The Ballad Project

Posted on February 14, 2019 by fretgenie

I am excited to announce my first-ever album of ballads: What You Don’t See As a musician I may be best known for a particular solo guitar style I invented in the late 1980’s that involves percussion and funk grooves. … Continue reading →

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“Funkin’ At The Junction” live in Wales

Posted on April 6, 2018 by fretgenie

Here is “Funkin’ At The Junction”, the last of four live videos from my concert at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Wales in September 2017. It is a funky (and fun to play) composition that I debuted at the Orange … Continue reading →

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My Now Hear This interview

Posted on April 4, 2018 by fretgenie

I really enjoyed doing this podcast interview in front of a live audience at the NAMM Show in January! Thorough research, thoughtful questions…and some laughter 🤣 http://www.NHTE.net

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“Delayed Train” live in Wales

Posted on February 22, 2018 by fretgenie

I thought I would share a live concert video from my concert in Aberystwyth, Wales September 2017. “Delayed Train” started off life as a tune called “Train” on my 1995 album Metal. The tune uses metal fingerpicks percussively to create … Continue reading →

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The day I lost my Leatherman: a cautionary airline guitar story

Posted on March 3, 2017 by fretgenie

I want to share an experience I had traveling with guitars last summer. I was dropped off late to Toronto Airport to catch a flight to Beijing. I had two acoustic guitars in professional carbon-graphite flight cases as well as … Continue reading →

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A big year

Posted on December 23, 2016 by fretgenie

My own personal 2016 was such an enormous year that I feel the need to write it down. It was amazing not only for the vast traveling I did, but for all the experiences and challenges I had along the … Continue reading →

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John Fahey: A Tribute

Posted on July 26, 2014 by fretgenie

I first heard John Fahey‘s solo acoustic guitar playing on an album when I was a teenager. I liked his strange, minimalist, visually and emotionally evocative instrumental compositions, performed in open tunings in an alternating-bass fingerpicking style. I found his … Continue reading →

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Three days in Odessa, Ukraine

Posted on May 9, 2014 by fretgenie

I had always wanted to see Odessa, ever since watching the 1925 Sergei Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkim in high school. The brilliantly-conceived scene of horror and tragedy distilled into an ironic symbol — a baby in a buggy rolling … Continue reading →

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Let’s get bored

Posted on January 25, 2014 by fretgenie

When I was in China last fall I watched a teenage girl on a Beijing subway say goodbye to a friend getting off at a stop. As soon as they had waved goodbye and the doors closed, the girl pulled … Continue reading →

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