Some of Our Favorite Music Home Pages 

Here is a list of other home pages we have found to be of interest to the acoustic music lover.

• Howard Morgen - Recently relocated to Chapel Hill from New York, Howard is an amazing seven-string jazz guitarist/clinician and arranger.
• Bruce Emery - A Raleigh resident, Bruce is a fine guitar player and teacher. He is the author of the most excellent Skeptical Guitarist series of books (over 40,000 copies sold!). Catch Bruce and his cohort David McKnight on mandolin and violin Saturday mornings from 11-1pm at the Global Village coffee house across from NC State.
• Brien Barbour - A terrific local singer-songwriter and songster extraordinaire! Wears great hats too!
• Al Petteway and Amy White - Al is a grammy award winning guitarist and composer currently living in Asheville, NC (formerly from my home town - DC). He has several albums out along with his lovely wife Amy that are a must hear! It was one of the major highlights of my guitar playing career to share the stage with Al at Swannanoa.
• Carrie Newcomer - An awesome singer songwriter whose voice is as smooth as melted milk chocolate. As she says, "Songwriting is not about being clever, flashy or fancy. It is about telling a compelling story in language and music with elegance and clarity." She also has one of the most beautiful websites we have ever seen. Check out the graphics!
• Kate Campbell - If you like Mary Chapin Carpenter or Lucinda Williams, you will love this lady! Great songwriter!
• Cheryl Wheeler - Extensive coverage of all her albums, background and history of her songs , sound clips
• Mary Chapin Carpenter (and others)- Complete coverage of her music, tunings, capo settings etc.
• Kathy Mattea - What a great voice this lady has! All sorts of sound clips and her latest performance schedule.
• Jon Vezner - Kathy Mattea's husband and an incredible songwriter. He wrote "Where've You Been" with Don Henry.
• Adam Rafferty - ah, the funk-meister! Adam's playing will get you moving. Listen to some of his fingerstyle arrangments on YouTube!
• Scott Ainslie - Well known for his mastery of blues and slide guitar as well as being a blues historian, he can also sing where you feel his songs, not just hear them!
• Dirty Linen - Dirty Linen folk magazine's home page.
• Kate Wolf - Information and music about the late folksinger.
• Pete Huttlinger - Pete is a phenomenal guitarist who is at home with acoustic fingerstyle, jazz, folk, or bossa nova. He has several albums out, but my overall favorite is the Santa Rita Connection. You've got to hear his solo (no double tracking here folks) rendition of Stevie Wonder's Superstition. I saw him play this in concert all by his lonesome. All one can say is "wow"!
• Doyle Dykes - another awesome fingerstyle player, a protege of Chet Atkins, and luminary of the Grand Ole Opry. A Taylor guitar clinician as well. A consumate player and gentleman.
• Ed Gerhard - Another grammy award winning guitarist who has more soul in his hands than James Brown! He plays with such grace and dignity yet is one of the most humble, down-to-earth persons I've met. I had the great pleasure of meeting him at the Guitar Week in Swannanoa.
• Stan Rogers - The official Stan Rogers home page. One of our very favorite singer/songwriters.
• Dougie MacLean - Dougie has been called the "James Taylor" of Scotland. Kathy Mattea has covered several of his songs.
• Don Smith - Another local Raleigh musician and former member of Emerson, Smith & Phelps (ESP), Don is now playing solo at coffee houses across the Triangle drawing his material from traditional American artists such as The Carter Family as well as from more recent singer-songwriters such as Norman Blake.

Local (and not so Local) Places to Hear Great Acoustic Music

• Bear Rock Cafe - Located in Morrisville, they have excellent deli-style sandwiches, un"bear"able desserts in a relaxed mountain lodge-like setting.
• Global Village Coffee House - Right across from NC State, this coffee house offers a relaxed atmosphere and acoustic music. Try their Cafe Milano it is outrageously good! Check out Bruce "the skeptical guitarist" Emery there Saturday mornings.
• Irregardless Cafe - A downtown Raleigh landmark. Great food that is reasonably priced with music throughout most of the week.
• Caffe Driade - This is a very different coffee house setting where the stage is nestled in the midst of a forest with beautiful gardens and trails. Located in Chapel Hill.
• General Store and Cafe - Absolutely the best burritos, great sandwiches, and coffee. Located in downtown Pittsboro. Recently expanded, this cafe offers great food and great local as well as national acts.
• Little Lake Hill House Concerts - Hear great acoustic music in an intimate house setting. Located in Raleigh.
• The Wolf's Lair Restaurant - The Wolf's Lair has continually been voted one of the "Top 100 Restaurants" in the U.S.A. on the Internet's chef2chef.net website. Black Wolf Vineyards and The Wolf's Lair Restaurant are co-located at the north end of the Yadkin Valley, in Dobson North Carolina near Mount Airy. They have live music (folk, blues, bluegrass) every Friday and Saturday night.
• Common Grounds Coffee House - Located in downtown Apex, this is quickly becoming one of our favorite hang-outs. Great coffee and desserts. A relaxed atmosphere in a well preserved historic building with beautiful exposed brick.

Music Stores and Other Resources

• Ron's Pickin Parlor - great place for lessons and good deals on Collings, Eastman, and Blueridge guitars!
• Fat Sound - one of my favorite local(to me) music stores
• Sheet Music - Online store for various sheet music
• OLGA - OnLine Guitar Archive containing a ton of songs and tablature
• Music Mart - Another online store for ordering sheet music. Browser must be java capable.
• Art of the Solo Performer - Great reference for performance tips. Steve Rapson also has written a great book about it.
• Yahoo - Guitar - Area to search for other guitar music areas on the net
• Folkbook - an Online Acoustic Music Establishment. Terrific resource for all sorts of folk music.
• 13th Fret - a resource for acoustic guitars with tons of links to other sites of interest.

If anyone finds additional areas of interest along the lines of the above, we'd love to hear about them!