Online Features

Online Features are articles written exclusively for fretboardjournal.com by our staff and writers. There isn’t room for everything in the magazine, so this is a place where you can read more about the things we love.

Imposing on Doc Watson: A Hitchhiker’s Musical Memoir
John C. Wagner
May 30, 2012

“You mean you boys’ve come all the way from San Francisco to Deep Gap just to see Doc? Well, dang, that’s really somethin’!”

It was 1966 and my friend...

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Django Reinhardt's Life on Record
Michael John Simmons
May 16, 2012

The sprawling 'Intégrale Django Reinhardt, Volumes 1 through 20'...

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Maybelle Carter: The Queen of Country Guitar
Michael John Simmons
May 10, 2012

About ten years ago, when I was feeling a little bit rich, I ponied up for...

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Five Questions For ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons
Hannah Levin
May 9, 2012

Last month, we sat down with Billy Gibbons for a lengthy discussion about guitars, Texas music history and much, much more. You’ll find the interview and dozens of exclusive photos in the...

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Bob Shane, Big Bill Broonzy, Louis Armstrong and Horses and the Best Correction Ever
Michael John Simmons
April 18, 2012

At the end of my Bob Shane story in issue 23 I quoted Louis...

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