Rick Landers is an interesting man.  Not only is he an accomplished singer-songwriter, but he is the publisher of Guitar International Magazine (www.guitarinternational.com).  And, he collects guitars... a man after my own heart.

Starting with a Sears & Roebucks' Silvertone guitar, Michael Schirf has learned close to 1,000 songs during his 40+ year music career.  Woodstock almost became a first-hand experience at the tender age of 17.

Fran Tucker's mother was an opera singer and pianist, her father a multi-instrumentalist who was her first guitar teacher.  She still owns and sometimes plays her first guitar, a child-sized instrument she received at the age of seven.  

Frederick MD based finger-style guitarist Jon Mann describes his creative process for assembling his instrumentals from pieces and fragments, and talks about guitar collection and his custom made guitar vault.

Harpers Ferry WV guitarist Frank Davis discusses his early musical years, and explains how attending Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch guitar camp changed his life.

Host Todd C Walker compares guitar picks, demonstrating how guitar players can change their sound by changing picks.

Annapolis (MD) Americana singer-songwriter Michael Kelly is a true student of his acoustic guitar and the craft of songwriting, filling out his sound with banjo, mandolin, fiddle and harmonica.  

National touring artist and Maryland-based singer-songwriter Kristin Rebecca has made her name as a harp-playing singer, who also plays acoustic guitar and is a seasoned Renaissance Fair Celtic performer.  She talks learning harp, studying voice in college and how she decided to become a touring singer-songwriter.

'Boulder Canyon' John Denver tribute band member Kevin Delmolino grew up in a musical family, starting out singing a capella barbershop, which led into 1980's hair band rock, to a career in aviation, but music stayed with him, as it does today.

Tom Kohlhepp, the Frederick Folklorist, had a interesting job during his six years in the Navy, and it doesn't involve music.  But, Folk Music caught his attention early on and slowly grew into his passion, with a detour into track & field coaching.