Sick Riffs: Sam Cooper teaches you the lush CAGED chord progressions of Mt. Joy's Strangers

Sick Riffs #97: Mt. Joy's 2020 album Rearrange Us is a smooth, 13-track, guitar-sprinkled indie-pop-rock fest, and we're totally here for it. Its closer - Strangers - beautifully bookends the record, and features some silkily-played six-stringing and fantastic arrangements to boot.

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Sam Roche

Sam was Staff Writer at GuitarWorld.com from 2019 to 2023, and also created content for Total Guitar, Guitarist and Guitar Player. He has well over 15 years of guitar playing under his belt, as well as a degree in Music Technology (Mixing and Mastering). He's a metalhead through and through, but has a thorough appreciation for all genres of music. In his spare time, Sam creates point-of-view guitar lesson videos on YouTube under the name Sightline Guitar.