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John Smith performs live with a Fylde acoustic guitar

How acoustic wizard John Smith went back to the future in search of acoustic transcendence

By David Mead published

Celebrating 20 years as a pro musician, singer-songwriter John Smith reimagines personal and fan-favorite songs for his latest album – and changed his choice of acoustic in the process

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Folk great John Smith on his life-changing Mulecaster experience and why the Quad Cortex isn’t just for metalheads

By David Mead published

As the influential UK folk guitarist gears up to take his new album, The Living Kind, out on the road, he joins us to explain how a shift in his gear and writing process has had a profound effect on his music

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John Smith: ”The only way to cope with life is to write songs, for me. As soon as I picked up the pen, the songs started falling out”

By David Mead published

Recorded at Real World studios last September, The Fray finds the acoustic ace exorcising personal turmoil in song – and leaning heavily into electric guitars

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John Smith: “As soon as you take your bottom E string down to a D, you’ve got a different instrument”

By David Mead published

One of the UK’s fastest-rising singer-songwriters on the magic of alternate tunings, his tonesome acoustic pedalboard, and not letting lockdown stop the music

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