“Blue-Hearted” The weissenborn has always been and always will be a very good fit with blues music. It’s played with open tunings and a slide so it’s a physical fit straight away but more importantly i feel it offers a more subtle, softer approach than a square neck dobro or bottle neck resonator can. It

When you listen to an Alex Roberts’s song for the first time it’s like meeting an old friend. He sings you intriguing stories and sentimentally reminisces in such a captivating way that familiarity is almost instantaneous. His honed song craft simply draws you in and holds your attention to the very last note. The warmth

Chris Haugen is a recording artist and guitar tutor from North California who is a bonafide zen master on the lap steel guitar. His music sounds like it’s the soundtrack to some magical story of everything around him. He intuitively absorbs and tunes into things and then translates these moods and feelings into wonderful instrumental

TWiE Award winning Weissenborn player and total enthusiast John Merrill stormed onto the Weissenborn scene at the back end of 2014 with what I can only describe as a “blitz style” Weissenborn assault on YouTube that literally came out of nowhere. But as in all cases no one comes from nowhere and produces such a

Interview by Aron Radford If it wasn’t for a chance hearing of Ed Gerhard I would have never fallen in love with the Weissenborn in the first place or became a Weissenborn recording artist myself, and this website you’re visiting now simply would not exist. Ever since I first heard the hauntingly beautiful “Homage” I was hooked on