Wispy Mop Music Acoustic Radio Podcast

Ben Sherman - Teaching Guitar, Music Theory and Live Streams

Maryland based professional guitarist Ben Sherman enjoys playing guitar as much now as he did as a kid, whether it's classical guitar, steel-string acoustic or electric.  Performing or teaching guitar, his studies of music theory for his Bachelor's Classical Music Degree opened up his musical world.  He discusses teaching, performing and his guitars & gear. 

Ed Barney - Up With People, Math and the Fretboard

Western Maryland guitar player Ed Barney is a solo artist, a sought after sideman and an alumni of Up With People.  From guitar lessons on a Harmony nylon string at the age of six, completing many Mel Bay lesson books, to jazz, blues and bluegrass,  he now sees the fretboard as Math. A great guitar player who loves Tony Rice, he's an interesting guy.

T. Edwin Doss - Pitching His Songs to Nashville

Accomplished singer-songwriter T. Edwin Doss will make you chuckle one moment and make you cry the next.  His songs cover humor, romance, faith and tragedy.  He describes his journey of pitching his award-winning songs to Nashville.

Rick Landers - Singer-Songwriter & Publisher of Guitar International Magazine

Rick Landers is an interesting man.  Not only is he an accomplished singer-songwriter, but he is the publisher of Guitar International Magazine (www.guitarinternational.com).  And, he collects guitars... a man after my own heart.

Michael Schirf - Man of 1,000 Songs

Starting with a Sears & Roebucks' Silvertone guitar, Michael Schirf has learned close to 1,000 songs during his 40+ year music career.  Woodstock almost became a first-hand experience at the tender age of 17.

Fran Tucker - The 1st Frederick Coffee Co Open Mic Performer

Fran Tucker's mother was an opera singer and pianist, her father a multi-instrumentalist who was her first guitar teacher.  She still owns and sometimes plays her first guitar, a child-sized instrument she received at the age of seven.  

Jon Mann - Miles From Earth Finger-Style Guitar

Frederick MD based finger-style guitarist Jon Mann describes his creative process for assembling his instrumentals from pieces and fragments, and talks about guitar collection and his custom made guitar vault.

Frank Davis - How Guitar Camp Changed His Life

Harpers Ferry WV guitarist Frank Davis discusses his early musical years, and explains how attending Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch guitar camp changed his life.

Guitar Pick Shoot-Out from Thin to Thick

Host Todd C Walker compares guitar picks, demonstrating how guitar players can change their sound by changing picks.

Michael Kelly - Americana Singer-Songwriter (Maryland USA)

Annapolis (MD) Americana singer-songwriter Michael Kelly is a true student of his acoustic guitar and the craft of songwriting, filling out his sound with banjo, mandolin, fiddle and harmonica.