Ep. 6: Lloyd Baggs
Acoustic Voices: A Guitar Podcast
These days, Lloyd Baggs is synonymous with great acoustic guitar pickup systems. But it didn't come easy. This self-taught tinkerer only turned to sound amplification after an eye-opening experience with Ry Cooder. During our chat, Baggs recounts the ups-and-downs of perfecting pickups, the importance of a pre-amp for gigging musicians, his work for various brands (including Breedlove) and describes how he's returned to his first love... building acoustics.
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Ep. 5: Nicholas Weber (Guitar Tonewoods)
Acoustic Voices: A Guitar Podcast
What makes for a sustainable tonewood? What does FSC-certified actually mean? On today's Acoustic Voices Podcast, we learn both and a lot more from Nicholas Weber, the founder of Guitar Tonewoods.
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Ep. 4: Artists to Watch: The Native Heart & Conner Cherland
Acoustic Voices: A Guitar Podcast
Ingenuity. We love it in our guitars and in our musicians. For this episode, we talk to a pair of artists who may not be on your radar yet, but will be soon: the Native Heart's Jon Torrance is a fanatical music educator and musician based in Michigan. He relishes the new, whether it's genres, covers, or skills like video editing. We then check in with Santa Barbara, California singer-songwriter Conner Cherland, a young artist with a knack for writing songs... a lot of songs.
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Ep. 3: Myrtlewood
Acoustic Voices: A Guitar Podcast
As interest in domestic guitar woods reaches an all-time high, we talk to Oregon-based Cyril Jacob, who handpicks the unique Oregon myrtlewood that Breedlove Guitars uses for their instruments.
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Ep. 2: Guitarist Chris Arndt (Jocelyn and Chris)
Acoustic Voices: A Guitar Podcast
Guitarist Chris Arndt is a throwback of sorts: An early obsession with classic rock had him sitting in with bar bands while he was still in elementary school. Today, he's one-half of the brother-sister duo, Jocelyn and Chris. With a few stellar albums already under their belt, they're navigating the music industry in a thoroughly unique way.
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Ep. 1: Tom Bedell
Acoustic Voices: A Guitar Podcast
For the debut episode of Acoustic Voices, we talk to Breedlove Guitars owner Tom Bedell. We hear about his first stint in the industry (starting a music store when he was still in high school), his purchase of Breedlove in 2010 and his ongoing commitment to creating a sustainable guitar business. We also hear about how the company's Sound Optimization process has changed the way they make instruments.
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Welcome to Acoustic Voices: A Guitar Podcast
Acoustic Voices: A Guitar Podcast
Welcome to Acoustic Voices, a new podcast collaboration between the Fretboard Journal and Breedlove Guitars. Once a month, we'll talk to some of the people that make this guitar brand unique, learn about music history, sustainability and much more.
info_outlineTom Bedell caught the guitar - and business - bug early. He was a successful guitar teacher, guitar importer and guitar store owner while he was still in high school. He’d go on to attend college, work as a political consultant, and successfully grow his family's fishing tackle business into an empire. Bedell's love for guitars never waned, though, and in 2010 he purchased Breedlove.
For the debut episode of Acoustic Voices, we talk to Bedell about his upbringing, the challenges of running a boutique guitar company in 2021, his hope for the future, and about his commitment to the environment when it comes to their wood choices. Michael Eck also joins us for a Breedlove history lesson and an homage to small-bodied parlor guitars.
Music courtesy of Luke Basile, played on a Breedlove Oregon Concertina guitar.
Acoustic Voices: A Guitar Podcast is an all-new collaboration between Breedlove Guitars and the Fretboard Journal magazine. We hope you enjoy it.
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