The Acoustic Show highlights the finest in instrumental acoustic steel and nylon string flatpicking, fingerstyle and slide guitar.

Featuring Australian artists such as Tommy Emmanuel, Bruce Mathiske, Nick Charles and Michael Fix as well as internationally renowned performers John Williams, Norman Blake, Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges, The Acoustic Show will include interviews, live in-studio performances and contest giveaways.

We break the genre barriers, from blues, jazz, country, world, classical, rock, new age, flamenco and everything inbetween.

Host Cletis Carr is an award-winning guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer with a lifelong passion for the sound of wood and steel.

International listeners time conversion (please make allowance for daylight savings in your zone:
USA Pacific – Tues 4pm
USA East – Tues 7pm
UK/Ire – Tues midnight
Western Europe – Wed 1am
India – Wed 5.30am
Hong Kong – Wed 8am

Show Playlists:
* – denotes Australian artist

22 Feb
The Itch / Gift
Snuffy Walden / Who Lives Up There
* Dave Carr / Endangered
* Tommy Emmanuel / Timberlake Road
* Matthew Fagan / English Medley
* Band Of Brothers / Anubis
* Caliente Guitar Trio / Rockpool
Leo Kottke / Don’t Call Me Ray
George Kuo / Waikiki Hula Medley
Dominic Miller / Adagio in G Minor
Al Petteway / Maggie’s Reel
Andrew White / Woodsprites Delight

15 Feb
Tom Lamson / Out For A Walk
Bill Mize / Freefall
* Slava Grygorian / Freefall
Ed Garhard / Creole Belle
* Peter Pik / Stagefright
Peter Rowan & Jerry Douglas / When You And I Were Young Maggie
Steve Booke / Alone
Viktor Krauss / For A Good Time
* Nick Charles / Lazy Bones
John Fahey / Bicycle Built For Two
* Chris Turner / Southside Blues
Pentangle / Lucky 13
* Tommy Emmanuel / Mombassa
Phil Keaggy / On Some Distant Shore

8 Feb
Doyle Dykes / Nothing’s Too Good
Alan Miceli / Errington Way
Coyote Zen / Sangro De Cristo
Bert Jansch / Alman
Kaki King / Tunnel
* Bruce Mathiske / Gumboots
Johannes Lindstead / La Serpiente
California Guitar Trio / Bohemian Rhapsody
* Tommy Emmanuel / Since We’ve Met
George Kuo & Barney Isaccs / Maui Medley
* David Martucci / Morimiento Perpetuo
Ron Steta / Mood For A Day
Bruce Cockburn / Train In The Rain
Leo Kottke / Itchy
Michael Hedges / Funky Avocado

1 Feb
* Nick Charles / East Coast Blues
* Slava Grigorian / Freefall
Al Petteway / Sligo Creek
* Tony Vandermeer / Melody
Don Ross / Menwhile Road
Antoine DuFour / Scratch (solo mix)
The Itch / Largess
Leo Kottke / Vaseline Machine Gun
John Williams / Bach (Prelude in G Major)
Ray Kane / Punahele
Steve Stevens / Sadhana
* Tommy Emmanuel / Train To Dusseldorf
Richard Thompson / Banish Misfortune
Gwyn Ashton / Uluru Sunset
Michael Hedges / Silent Anticipation

25 Jan
* Tommy Emmanuel / Those Who Wait
Russ Freeman / Larry’s World
Alan Goodman / La Ultima
* Nick Charles / Spanish Harlem
* Bruce Mathiske / Eleanor Rigby
Michael Hedges / Java Man
Johannes Lindstead / Mezza Luna
Cyril Pahinui / Panini Pua Kea
Leo Kottke / Cripple Creek
Clint Black / The Claw
Coyote Zen / I’m Leaving
Doug Young / Rhiannon
Tom Lamson / Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies
TJ Baden / Surreal
* Tommy Emmanuel / Questions

Contact the host – cletis@cletis.com

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