For those who like my AKUS songs like "A Living Prayer," "There is a Reason," "Jesus Help Me to Stand," "In the Palm of Your Hand," and are interested in Christian spirituality, I've got a book coming out on Moody Publications called Abiding Dependence. It's a 40-day devotional-style book, beginning with days the life of Jesus as the Son of God and Son of Man, and then moving into our identity as sons and daughters of God. 

Abiding Dependence releases October 4th - you can order it here:  Order Abiding Dependence

I'll be playing in Ireland and Northern Ireland on the last leg of the 2022 Banjophonics Tour with Damien O'Kane and the boys, several shows with Mike McGoldrick and one with John-Joe Kelly. Aoife Scott and Andy Meaney will also be co-billing with us, and I'll play with them, plus I've got three extra shows with them. Check my Tour page here: IRISH BANJOPHONICS TOUR DATES

HELLO GUITARISTS!

I've got an Online Guitar Workshop (click here!) available now!

LEVEL: Intermediate to advanced

OBJECTIVE: To help guitarists see new ways to move forward - to give you the tools and ideas that I've used to create my style of playing with Alison Krauss & Union Station so that you can take those tools and more fully develop your own styles of playing. Order link is here: Guitar Workshop

TOPICS: Roots and Inflluences - George Shuffler, Larry Sparks, and Clarence White to blues and country players. We'll move on into some of my solos with Alison throughout the course, but at the front end we'll look into some of the players that helped create the guitar style I use with AKUS, and how I change my playing for other situations. 

The Psychology of Playing Well (this is incredibly important) 

Right and Left Hand Technique 

Tone - Timing - Taste 

Rhythm Playing 

How I Learned and Continue to Learn the Neck 

Make Solos More Moving with Expression 

Make Solos More Engaging with Intervals ("doublestops") 

Playing the Melody: The Many Ways to Vary a Solo. 

Crosspicking 

And I'll add more before the starting date. 

Plus these freebies and more: Downloads of A Light So Fair: Peaceful Guitar Instrumentals; my Hogan's House of Music bluegrass instrumental record (I took quite a few guitar breaks on it); a pdf of my Traditional Guitar Workbook with my personal tabs of George Shuffler, Larry Sparks, Bill Napier, Don Reno, Clarence White, and Junior Blankenship. These freebies alone are worth about $47. 

The Workshop will be held on these days at 7pm Central in 2020: Nov 12, 19, 27, Dec 3. (Nov 26 is Thanksgiving, so that day will be done on Friday, Nov 27). 

When signing up, you'll get a download link for Hogan's House of Music. I'll be putting all email addresses into a file, and in the next week or so when I get everything into Dropbox I'll be sending out the Zoom link, passwords I'll use for the videos, and the Dropbox link with the outlines, tabs, and freebies. 

I'm looking forward to it!

(Photo by Russ Carson)