))
Eric Schoenberg - Schoenberg Guitars | Classic Steel String Guitars
Manage episode 392156667 series 3498885
Content provided by George Cole. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by George Cole or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
From Sourced Network Productions, it’s the Hot Jazz Network, with host, George Cole.
Welcome everyone to the Hot Jazz Network podcast. I'm your host George Cole. Today, our very special guest is the one and only Eric Schoenberg, proprietor of Schoenberg Guitars and the Dean of Acoustic Guitars in America.
Eric is primarily a finger-style guitarist who started out 50 years ago as a folkie and has since broadened his scope to many other kinds of music. Basically, when a song perks up his ears, it will try to find a place on his guitar.
In 1963, Eric started teaching, which continued till just a couple of years ago. In the late 60s he became the second half of a duo with his cousin, Dave Laibman, helping Dave perform his amazing, groundbreaking arrangements of classical ragtime. This resulted in their album, Contemporary Ragtime Guitar, on Folkways Records.
In the early 70s he starting drifting into a life of performing, touring the US & Europe playing solo fingerstyle guitar, playing the classical rags, folk music, blues, country, Beatles, etc. Since then he has written a book, Fingerpicking Beatles, released two solo albums, Acoustic Guitar and Steel Strings, on Rounder Records, a duet CD, Late Night Conversations with Richard Scholtz, on Live Music Recordings, and several contributions to anthologies.
He has run a concert series, owned and run a guitar shop, Eric Schoenberg Guitars, in Tiburon, CA, and produced a line of high-end classic steel-string guitars, Schoenberg Guitars.
9 episodes
Share
