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I just finished reading a book called Guitar Man about a 34 year old English man who is inspired by Davey Graham's "Anji" to try to learn how to play the guitar well enough to do a live show within six months.

It's a non-fiction self narrative sort of deal and it's filled with lots of interesting history about the guitar and great interviews with all kinds of different guitarists (Johnny Marr, Les Paul, Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, Dan Auerbach, T. Model Ford, and more.)

I found it to be simultaneously hilarious, interesting, and inspiring. If you're at all interested in playing guitar (especially if you are a beginner or someone who has played a bit but never taken it real seriously) I think you'll probably love this book like I did. I definitely recommend it.

In fact, I loved the book so much that when I looked the author up (Will Hodgkinson) after I was done reading it and found he had a book called Song Man (which looks to be a similar theme but with the focus being songwriting instead of playing guitar) I wasted no time ordering it on Amazon (it should be here in a few days.)

And the book has got me getting serious about my guitar playing again. I'm one of those types who has been playing guitar for a long time but never really bothered trying to take it to the "next level." This book inspired me to start pushing myself a lot harder to get better.

Actually part of the reason I've not been updating this blog as much as I thought I was going to be is that lately my attention has been more on making music than on recording it. Although, I'm quite certain I'm going to be getting my head deeply into recording at some point in the future and the recording related entries will start coming a lot faster.