Introducing “Don’t Let AI Write Your Stinking Song”: a co-writing experiment with ChatGPT.

Dylan traces songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Boots of Spanish Leather” back to the folk songs that inspired them. An annotated excerpt from his 2015 MusiCares speech, with an accompanying playlist.

Video lesson on the guitar style of Nickel Creek’s Sean Watkins, with examples from their album Celebrants.

Video lesson with examples based on songs by Neil Young, James Taylor, Janis Ian, Dave Matthews, and more

A songwriter’s guide to arranging and performing other people’s songs

Tips and exercises to help you get out of ruts and discover new territory on the guitar

Why you sometimes need to shut down the music to hear the music.

A visit to the studio of guitarist, producer, and Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman. Plus an invitation to guitarists to take the #AckermanTuningChallenge.

Remembering first guitars in the debut episode of the Acoustic Guitar Podcast.

An in-depth video lesson on the distinctive fingerstyle guitar of JT, with examples to play based on some of his best-loved songs.

A conversation with legendary U.K. songwriter Joan Armatrading, and a video lesson teaching guitar grooves and riffs from some of her best songs.

A new book/video teaches the guitar styles of 14 legendary singer-songwriters, including Joni Mitchell, John Prine, Paul Simon, and Bill Withers.

How I wrote “Hippie Hair”—a different kind of pandemic song, about growing locks that recalled my original music heroes.

Tricks and tools for figuring out guitar parts from your favorite recordings.

How Megan and Rebecca Lovell of Larkin Poe traveled from bluegrass to blues rock and beyond.

Roots music performer and teacher Happy Traum looks back at his 50-plus-year career, and shares how to play some of his signature songs.

A conversation with Americana icon Lucinda Williams about guitar and songwriting, with a video lesson teaching rhythm patterns from some of her best songs.

A new alternate-tuning guitar arrangement of the Pink Floyd classic “Wish You Were Here.”

Explore the stripped-down accompaniment style behind classic songs like “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Grandma’s Hands,” and “Use Me.”

A look inside the the John Lennon Songwriting Contest winner “Fly,” from its beginnings in the fiddle tune “Sally Goodin” through its evolution onstage.