Are you stressed? Worried? Burnt out? Then I have a simple suggestion: pick up an instrument. Why? Well, because I believe learning guitar is the best thing you can do to soothe your gnashing brain.

Zachary Cale is a helluva guitar player, his understated picking patterns interweave like latticework, thrust through dusky production, whispering and lush strings and a Dylan-esque voice (which you ...

Ariel Jarvis graduated Monday. Instead of getting a diploma, she received a guitar. The audience clapped for veterans Jarvis and Jacob Scissons as they were presented with polished acoustic guitars ...

On the surface, not much seems to happen in the new video from Los Angeles guitarist Patrick McDermott, who records as North Americans. A handful of tourists at the Cabazon Dinosaurs in Riverside ...

This isn’t so much a column, I suppose, as it is a meditation. It’s the kind of column -- er, meditation –--that I write when I’ve been spending the week on Cape Cod, alone with my daughter, strolling ...

Zachary Cale appears on the Driftless Instrumental I compilation alongside Megafortress, Hayden Pedigo, and Chris Votek. Zachary Cale is a helluva guitar player, his understated picking patterns ...

Cale's "Guitar" opens Driftless Instrumental I, a compilation featuring one-take solo performances by guitarist Hayden Pedigo, pianist Andrew... Zachary Cale is a helluva guitar player, his ...