Jeff Wahl

I was honored to be asked to play for St. Paul's evening service this last Thursday and it was really amazing. Thank you to Pastor Alan for allowing me so much free reign in that very meditative service. Wonderful experience!

I played a very magical service at Zion's Lutheran Church in Trinidad, CO on Sunday night that was really incredible and moving. I actually had to ask for a box of tissues at one point during my performance it was so moving. Thank you to everyone involved in this!

I want to send a big thank you to the town of Raton, NM and the great organization, “Grow Raton” who brought me into town to play a concert there. It was a great time and I really appreciate everyone who came out for the show. They even gave me tickets for their town's production of the The Christmas Carol that night at the wonderful Schuler Theater in Raton. What a great time and what a cool town. Thank you to everyone in Raton for this terrific experience!

Wow! What a night!!! To everyone who attended the show last night at The Muse in Lafayette, CO, what a magical night we had! There must have been some magic in that theater that night! Janine, one of the Muse theater managers warned me before the show that the theater was haunted. I believe it after last night, because it wasn't just me on that stage, there was some sort of energy in there last night. Wow. Thank you all so much for the amaaaaaaazing night!!! You went me and stuck with me no matter how far I…

Thank you to everyone in Trinidad for the great concert I performed there this weekend. That was such a wonderful experience. Thank you so much to Tracy, Meghan, Leif, and everyone else who promoted the show and made it such a big success. There was definitely some kind of magic in that room the night of the concert!

I've noticed a lot of people downloading transcriptions of my songs and arrangements recently. That is great. Thank you. Please feel free to ask my any questions you have about playing these songs. I don't think my songs and arrangements are all that difficult to play, but I do use some sort of unorthodox, self-taught techniques that might be tricky.

I lot of my songs are played on classical guitar and I do play on a standard size, wide neck. But I do use my thumb a lot to hold down bass strings, all the…

I saw Leo Kottke play live last night in a wonderful theater just down the street from where I live. I've probably seen Leo play live about 10 times at this point. I've been listening to Leo's albums since I was in high school and I've been seeing him play live shows since I was in college. I've sort of grown up with his music. Every time I've seen him play live, it's always different. He has such a repertoire of music to pull from. Anyway, it was great, as it always has been.

People often ask my who my guitar heroes are. I have the obvious answers: Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges, Tuck Andress, Christopher Parkening, Steve Stevens, etc. But the original guitar hero for me was my Dad. When I was a kid, my Dad would get out his guitar and play little concerts for me and it was the most mesmerizing thing in the world for me. It was just amazing. My Dad could strum an acoustic guitar and sing like no one else I've ever heard, to this day. Imagine Jim Croce with a lot more rhythm and a…

I go back and forth and back and forth on this issue. My early years of playing guitar, from the age of 12 to about 16, I only ever used a flat pick to play the guitar. I rarely finger picked. Then, when I started to learn solo jazz guitar at 16, I started to use a flat pick in conjunction with some basic finger picking with my middle, ring, and pinky fingers. A few years later, I got really into playing classical guitar and some basic "fingerstyle" guitar. Then, eventually I sort of stopped using a flat…

Like many others, I was shocked to hear of Eddie Van Halen's untimely passing this last year. What an amazing guitarist. Due to the acoustic and mellow nature of my music, some people might be surprised to learn that I listened to and tried to play Eddie Van Halen's music as much as I could when I was younger. What an incredible musician. Eddie Van Halen changed everything for electric guitarists, actually all guitarists. Acoustic guitarists tap pretty regularly now, and say what you want, but very few…