Music Gurus~!

JAMIE ANDERSON
Jamie Anderson is a Contemporary folk singer-songwriter who teaches songwriting at Duke University as well as other music classes and workshops. Since the late '80s she has toured all over the U.S., appearing at hundreds of venues, including folk and women's music festivals. While she's known for demented songs like "When Cats Take Over the World," she also delves into a range of more serious topics. Her newest record¬ing is Drive All Night. Anderson lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her partner and their two enormous felines, who persist in trying to collect royalties for the cat song.
STEPHEN DICK
Guitarist/composer Stephen Dick lives in the Los Angeles area, where he leads the fla¬menco/jazz trio Mojacar. He studied theory and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music and at San Francisco State University with Pulitzer Prize-winning composers William Thomas McKinley and Wayne Peterson. Dick's compositions for solo guitar have received awards and have been published in Europe and the U.S.
DAVID HAMBURGER
David Hamburger is a guitarist, teacher, and writer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has toured with Salamander Crossing and Five Chinese Brothers and appeared on recent recordings by Chuck Brodsky and the Kennedys. A regular instructor at the National Guitar Summer Workshop, Hamburger has written three instruction books, including The Dobro Workbook. His latest solo recording is Indigo Rose, on Chester Records (www.songs.com).
JAMES JENSEN
James Jensen has been a frequent contributor to Acoustic Guitar magazine over the years, interviewing players such as Michael Hedges, Jorma Kaukonen, David Wilcox, and Bruce Cockburn. He currently divides his time between Acoustic Music Resource (a catalog and Web site for instrumental acoustic guitar CDs, tapes, and books) and Solid Air Records (a label featuring such players as Laurence Juber, Doug Smith, John Jorgenson, Preston Reed, and David Cullen), allowing him to stay close to his lifelong passion for acoustic guitar.
RICHARD JOHNSTON
Richard Johnston is a luthier, stringed-instrument repairman, and co-owner of Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, California. He is also coauthor, with Jim Washburn, of the book Martin Guitars: An Illustrated Celebration of America's Premier Guitarmaker (Rodale Press). Johnston has been writing for Acoustic Guitar magazine since its incep¬tion in 1990 and has been a contributing editor since 1995. He has written definitive his¬torical articles on a wide variety of guitars, including vintage flattops, archtops, dread¬noughts, 12-frets, and the Gibson J-200.
HENRY KAISER
California-based musician Henry Kaiser is widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative guitarists, improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock, jazz, and experimental music. He has appeared on more than 175 albums, and he performs fre-quently throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan. A restless collaborator who constantly seeks the most diverse and personally challenging contexts for his music, Kaiser has played with Herbie Hancock, Richard Thompson, David Lindley, Jerry Garcia, Cecil Taylor, D'Gary, Terry Riley, Sonny Sharrock, Derek Bailey, and Bill Frisell.
PATTY LARKIN
After attending college in Oregon, singer-songwriter Patty Larkin headed to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. She honed her performance skills in the subways and the streets and fronted a succession of bands—rock bands, jug bands, Celtic bands—before embarking on a solo career. She has since recorded nine albums of incisive original songs, including Perishable Fruit (High Street/Windham Hill 1997), the live collection A Gogo (Vanguard 1999), and Regrooving the Dream (Vanguard 2000).
DON McLEAN
Don McLean is one of the most popular singer-songwriters of the last three decades. He has nearly 30 albums currently in print, and he tours frequently in the United States and around the world. McLean's current projects include a new recording of originals, a chil-dren's album, a Marty Robbins tribute, and the PBS special Don McLean: Starry, Starry Night with guests Nanci Griffith and Garth Brooks. In honor of the 30th anniversary of "American Pie," the Martin Guitar Co. created a signature guitar called the Don McLean D-40 DM. President Clinton invited McLean to sing at the Lincoln Memorial to celebrate the new millennium, and McLean was also honored at a Founders' Dinner at the White House for people who have influenced the 20th century.
ELIZABETH PAPAPETROU
Elizabeth Papapetrou is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and recording engineer who also designs Web pages and runs a Web resource called Motherheart (www.motherheart.org). Originally from the U.K. and now living in Florida, she has been writing for music maga-zines for more than 17 years.
JEFFREY PEPPER RODGERS
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers is the founding editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine and has been writing extensively on the acoustic music scene since 1989. His profile of Joni Mitchell's guitar and lyrical craft appears in the book The Joni Mitchell Companion (Schirmer), and his interview with Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds is included in their Live at Luther College songbook (Cherry Lane). Rodgers' first book, Rock Troubadours, will be pub¬lished by String Letter Publishing in late 2000. A guitarist and singer, he has been putting words and music together since he was a teenager, and his all-acoustic, all-original home¬grown CD, Traveling Songs, can be sampled at www.jeffreypepperrodgers.com.
STEVE SESKIN
Steve Seskin is a versatile songwriter whose songs have been covered by artists as diverse as Alabama, Waylon Jennings, John Michael Montgomery, Peter Frampton, Paul Young, and Delbert McClinton. Seskin also maintains an active performing career around his home base of northern California and at festivals and acoustic venues throughout the United States and Canada. In recent years his festival appearances have included the Kerrville Folk Festival, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, Vancouver Folk Festival, and Napa Valley Music Festival. Seskin is also an active lecturer and songwriting teacher for the Northern California Songwriters Association, Nashville Songwriters Association International, and San Francisco State University.
SAM SHABER
Based in New York City, Sam Shaber is a graduate of Cornell University and a touring singer-songwriter with three critically acclaimed albums out on her own label, Brown Chair Records. Her latest release, 1999's perfecT, was voted number 7 out of 1,800 titles for Best Independent CD of 1999 on CDBaby.com. She has also been published in Musician, Performing Songwriter, Home Recording, and other national magazines. She can be found on the Web at www.samshaber.com.
SIMONE SOLONDZ
Simone Solondz took her first guitar lesson when she was a junior at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She began working at Acoustic Guitar magazine in 1991 and became the editor in 2000. Her songwriter interviews for the magazine have included David Crosby, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Jonatha Brooke, Iris DeMent, and Jay Farrar of Son Volt.
GARY TALLEY
Gary Talley was the original lead guitar player for the '60s group the Box Tops, who reunited in 1997 and are touring again. He works as a guitar teacher and session musi¬cian in Nashville and has published a video and book called Guitar Playing for Songwriters. He has recorded with such artists as Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette, Waylon Jennings, and Billy Preston. His songs have been recorded by the Box Tops, Keith Whitley, James Cotton, and others.
PAUL ZOLLO
Paul Zollo is a songwriter, author, and music journalist. His most recent book is Songwriters on Songwriting, Expanded Edition. As a songwriter, Zollo has collaborated with a wide range of artists, from Darryl Purpose to Steve Allen. Zollo's first solo album, released in August 2000 by Windy Apple Records, features a duet with Art Garfunkel. Presently the managing editor of Performing Songwriter magazine, Zollo has written for SongTalk, Musician, Acoustic Guitar, and other publications. He's also written liner notes for the CD boxed set Paul Simon 1964-1993, The Best of Laura Nyro: Stoned Soul Picnic, and other releases.

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