Hear music from one of the two Sonic Youth guitarists, Lee Ranaldo, along with the fingerstyle folk rocker Steve Gunn, recorded at the 2017 New York Guitar Festival in the Greene Space.

Ranaldo rhapsodizes about how he had been writing recently on acoustic guitar instead of electric, playing these “wooden” guitars, and even using standard tuning for most of the songs on his forthcoming record, Electric Trim (MUTE Records, due out September 15) . Jonathan Lethem helped out with the lyrics on many of the songs, and Lee plays one, “Thrown Over The Wall.”

Plus, hear a contemplative fingerpicked acoustic tune by Steve Gunn, once a sideman for Kurt Vile, and a member of psych-folk supergroup Black Dirt Oak. Listen to a song dedicated to the late fingerstyle guitarist Jack Rose, who is the reason that Gunn began to explore that playing style.