1986 Frets special report: How to arrange your music - tips from top pros

Features: Special report: How to arrange your music - tips from top pros; Arranger's checklist; How the pros do it; Multitracker magic; Workshops: Chet Atkins - "Blue Angel"; Dan Crary - a feisty flatpicking challenge - "McCahill's Reel"; Peter Grant - turnaround is fair play in high G tuning; David Grisman - more duo mandolin dynamite with "Swing '38"; more

1986 December Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1991 Guitar Player - Metallica - modern metal's biggest band reinvents itself

Contents: Metallica - modern metal's biggest band reinvents itself; Jerry Garcia - Garcia & Grisman - the head Dead's acoustic side; Richard Thompson - hands-on hints from the avant-roots visionary; Jimmy Wilsey with Chris Isaak; Leo Fender in his own words; Alex De Grassi - A fingerstyle master's circular odyssey; Evan Johns; Scott Henderson; Zairian soukous master Diblo Dibala; more

1991 September Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1984 Frets: Recording Acoustic Music

Features: Features: Making a record on your own; Music in the field; Choosing a multitracker; The Home Studio; Guide to Acoustic Labels; Putting Music on Paper; Arching Bass Fingerboards; Workshops: David Grisman - The Session Mandolinist - sit in on David's Nashville dates; Chet Atkins - how to play harmonics; Earl Scruggs - Thumbpicks and Southpaws - Earl offers pointers on picking; more

1984 April Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1984 Frets: The New Acoustic Music - David Grisman, Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka, Jerry Douglas, Mark O'Connor and more...

Cover Story: The New Acoustic Music - David Grisman, Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka, Jerry Douglas, Mark O'Connor and more...; Features: Roy Clark on Stage; Jimmy Henley; Pickups vs. Microphones; Inside the JEMF (John Edwards Memorial Foundation); Frets 5 year index; Workshops: Chet Atkins - Left-hand rolls - stretching yourself for speed; Alan Munde - Three finger exercise - ways to master picking flexibility; more

1984 February Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1985 Hot Mandolin Styles - nine mandolin giants - Bill Monroe, Jesse McReynolds, David Grisman & more

Features: Hot Mandolin Styles - nine mandolin giants - Bill Monroe, Jethro Burns, Bobby Osborne, Andy Statman, Sam Bush, Jesse McReynolds, David Grisman, John Reischman, Doyle Lawson; Leon Redbone "Ain't Misbehavin"; Harp for the new age; Studio Craftsman; Lighting up your act; Readers Poll top acoustic artists; Gallery of the Greats - acoustic music super-achievers; Dulcimers, Lutes, and Air-bag guitars - Guild of American Luthiers annual convention; more

1985 January Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1984 Frets: The Kingston Trio - breakthrough boys of the '60s folk boom

Features: The Kingston Trio - breakthrough boys of the '60s folk boom; Evolution of the Mandolin - a pictorial history; Copyrights; Nashville's Grand Master Fiddling; Gibson leaves home - Kalamazoo factory closing; Workshops: Chet Atkins - The Harmonics Connection; Dan Crary - crosspicking "Home Sweet Home"; David Grisman - favorite Mandolins of the masters; Rick Gartner - the lowdown on composing; John McEuen - stepping out of the rut -diversify to make your music pay; more

1984 June Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1985 The Art of Gordon Lightfoot

The Art of Gordon Lightfoot; Fingerpick the Blues - 3 Unique Styles; The Kronos Quartet Meets Monk; Melodic Banjo Styles; Repair Shop - The Secret of Shellac Stick; The Music Camps; So you want to run a music camp; A Selected Directory of Music Camps; Workshops: Peeking into David Grisman's private mandolin collection; Tony Rice - when the royalty pie is sliced, what's the artist's cut?; Chet Atkins - left hand shortcuts; Dan Crary - giving old tunes a new lease on life; more

1985 May Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1985 New Grass Revival - Sam Bush, Pat Flynn, Bela Fleck, John Cowan

Supergroup! New Grass Revival - Sam Bush, Pat Flynn, Bela Fleck, John Cowan; Flynn - out of the studio into the spotlight; John Cowan - anchor man for a whirlwind; Sam Bush - leader with a low profile; Bela Fleck - making 5 string fireworks; Banjo on the Bosporus - Bela Fleck chronicles the '84 Turkish tour; The conversion of Pat Metheny; Remembering Don Reno by Earl Scruggs, Bill Keith & Alan Munde; Workshops: Tony Rice, Chet Atkins, Byron Berline, David Grisman; more

1985 April Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 David Grisman - Mandolin's Best Friend

Cover Story: David Grisman keeps on picking; Singer/Songwriter Nanci Griffith; Don't Call Me Leftie - String playing left handers speak out, there's more to being a southpaw than meets the eye; The Late Great Jean Carignan; Inside Gibson's Custom Shop; Meet Henry Juskiewicz - president of Gibson; Workshops: Tony Rice - The flatpicking train runs on time; more

1988 June Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 John Cougar Mellencamp - Acoustic Adventure in the Heartland

Cover Story: John Cougar Mellencamp - Daredevil or visionary? The Platinum rocker told his band it was time to go acoustic - and the gamble paid off; Norman & Nancy Blake; How to buy a hammered dulcimer; Fingerstylist David Qualey; Fiddling, Contradance Style; Workshops: David Grisman, Remembering mandolin giant Tiny Moore; Jas Obrecht, The too-brief career of guitar legend Eddie Lang; more

1988 March Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Frets: You and Your Music - Read it and Write it Now!

Features: Frets 1987 Index; Top composers reveal their sources of inspiration; Standard Music Notation - learning it is easier than you thought; Find out why sonata allegro form can help you be creative in any style; Old Fashioned Fiddles - Herb Clinard; Workshops: Alternate Tunings; Fingerstyle Arranging; Songwriting Tips; Paganini - the most notorious fiddler of them all; Rare Mandolin by Larson Brothers; more

1988 January Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Richard Thompson - Guitar's Cult Hero

Features: The Indescribable Richard Thompson; The Ramblings of Jack Elliott; Feature Music: Richard Thompson's acoustic guitar; a dulcimeric tour de force; a yuletide duet from Mair-Davis; some "Forgotton Pictures" you'll want to remember; Champaign Fiddler Alison Krauss; David Schnaufer; The Mair-Davis Duo; Workshops: Byron Berline -Fiddling in the studio; Larry Carlton - Guitar prayer part two; David Grisman - harmonies for hackers; Dan Crary - making strings last; John Renbourn - can you dance and play guitar?; Tony Trischka - the 5-string free of capo; more

1988 December Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Sharon Isbin, Classical Guitarist - Secrets of her success

Features: Sharon Isbin - Beyond Classical Guitar; Sharon Isbin Music -is it classical or is it Travis-style?; The Guitars of Preston Reed; Edgar Meyer is "Out There"; Fingerstyle technical exercise from Preston Reed; Workshops: George Gruhn -evolution of the F-4 Mandolin; John Renbourn - DADGAD; David Grisman - Duo Style Mandolin; Alan Munde - art of the jazz waltz; Byron Berline -you deserve a break today; Guest Martin Simpson - frailing banjo revisited; Dan Crary - Bugle calls for flatpickers; Jas Obrecht - The minstrel of the Appalachians - Bascom Lamar Lunsford; more

1988 October Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1991 Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, Guitar Transcription to Grateful Dawg

Cover: Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead and David Grisman

Contents: Guitar & Bass Sheet Music & Tab: Mike Stern, Odds or Evens; Tuck Andress, Somewhere Over the Rainbow / If I Only Had a Brain; Ben Verdery and John Williams, Camden, Maine; Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, Grateful Dawg; Rory Block, Mama's Blues; Features: Ben Verdery; Mike Stern; Jerry Garcia and David Grisman; Rory Block; Tuck Andress; more

1991 Fall Guitar Extra Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com