Greg Carmichael never really wanted to be a solo performer. “Didn’t think I had the personality or desire to do it. I was more interested in playing in a band. It was more fun to be part of a team,” ...

It's an interesting dilemma: how does a singer cover a band whose songs have no lyrics? The solution the Chicago-based tandem of vocalist Lisa McClowry and producer Jim Peterik came up with was not ...

British instrumental and smooth jazz ensemble Acoustic Alchemy, fronted by guitarists Greg Carmichael on nylon guitar and Miles Gilderdale on steel and electric, has for more than three decades been ...

Detail from the cover of Ben Krakauer's Hidden Animals, by Iliad Sabchi. Born mostly in California in the 1970s, the fusion known variously as jazzgrass, spacegrass, and Dawg music (after mandolinist ...

Acoustic Alchemy guitarist Greg Carmichael had a big extended family when he was growing up. And with family reunions came jam sessions. "We weren't like other families," Carmichael said during a ...

A lot of great guitarists get their start the same way: with anacoustic guitar that their parents bought them. It seems onlynatural that Greg Carmichael of Acoustic Alchemy got his musicbeginnings the ...