1979 Jethro Burns - Comedy and Jazz Mandolin

Contents: Jethro Burns - Comedy and Jazz Mandolin; Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter - King of the 12-String guitar players of the world; Steve Kaufman - Flatpicking Champ; Kevin Roth - dulcimer Style & Technique; Christmas Buying Guide; Selecting a mixer; Riley Puckett - Old-Time Guitarist; more

1979 December Pickin’ Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1985 Frets: Nationals and Dobros - American Ingenuity

Slidin' Steel - The Resophonic Guitar; Nationals and Dobros - American Ingenuity; A Brief Dobro History; Dobro Lesson - Hawaiian Slide, High "G" Tuning; Slide Seminar - Slants and Patterns; Stanley Clarke and the art of the bass; John Hartford - banjo, fiddle and fancy footwork; Frets visits Folk Roots Dulcimers; Review: Takamine 12-string; more

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

1985 Market Survey of Acoustic / Electric guitars, banjos, autoharps, dulcimers and fiddles

Market Survey of Acoustic / Electric guitars, banjos, autoharps, dulcimers and fiddles; the workings of magnetic pickups, piezo transducers and microphones; Inside the black boxes - digital Delay, chorus, reverb, compression, pitch modulation; The search goes on for amplification that will boost volume without contaminating tone; How The Pros Manipulate Sound; Workshops: Rick Foster - a gifted transcriber recasts "Silent Night" for solo guitar; Greg Raskin - what a preamp will or won't do for your sound; more

1985 December 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 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 Frets: Mark O'Connor plays everything - and some say better than anyone!

Features: Mark O'Connor plays everything - and some say better than anyone!; Fast Folk Musical Magazine; Leonard Cohen's Songwriting Style; Patrick Street -an Irish band with no gimmicks; Mexico's legendary Gilberto Puente; Frets visits Blue Lion Dulcimers; Workshops: Julie Lyonn Lieberman - fiddling with pentatonics; Alan Munde- a nine-pound banjo solo from Allen Shelton; Bob Brozman - Slide Guitar made easy with open G tuning; Guest: Larry Carlton; Tony Rice - settling in to the recording studio; more

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