Martins & More with Spoon Phillips

Today we're taking a deep dive into the current choices in Martin Guitar bracing. What does bracing do for a guitar's top? What are the different bracing sizes, bracing shapes and bracing patterns?  Does bracing change the sound of a guitar? These answers & more - coming up! This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     Want to support the show? Join our Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/c/martinsandmore By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

Pacific Northwest acoustic guitarist Eric Skye occupies a unique niche between folk, jazz and blues, between fingerstyle and flatpicking, and between composition and improvisation. A lifetime of eclectic interests and adventuresome exploration culminates into a fully realized and identifiable personal style and tone. Eric's wide-ranging body of work is threaded together with an uncluttered minimalist’s aesthetic, a passion for in-the-moment music making, and a love of pure acoustic tone.

Martin Authentic guitars in 2024. Welcome to Martins & More with Spoon Phillips! Our friend & long-time listener named Rick suggested that we revisit the subject of Martin Authentic guitars, since much has changed since we last spoke on the topic, several seasons ago. We thought that would be a fine idea, and we recorded this episode back in December, 2024. 2025 NAMM gave us a lot of great time-sensitive content to work up back in January/February - but now it's time to talk Authentic Martin Guitars. Thanks for listening!  This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     Want to support the show? Join our Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/c/martinsandmore By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

Our pal Tom Fleischman is our guest on today's episode of Martins & More! We met Tom through the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum (UMGF) and have enjoyed many Martinfests together. He's an avid guitar player with a impressive collection of Martin Guitars, and we hope you enjoy our interview.  Tom Fleischman began mixing feature films under the mentorship of New York rerecording mixer Richard (Dick) Vorisek in1979. Since then Tom has mixed nearly 300 features, documentaries, commercials, and television projects and has developed long-term working relationships with many directors including Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Ron Howard, Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, and Ken Burns. Tom has had 5 Academy Award nominations, and one win for “Hugo” in 2010. He has also won 5 Emmy’s, 7 Cinema Audio Society Awards, and a Career Achievement Award from CAS.

Today we're taking a deep dive into Martin Guitar necks. Neck shape, neck width, neck profile, string spacing, nut width, scale length - if it's related to the part of the guitar between the headstock & body - it's in today's show. This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     Want to support the show? Join our Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/c/martinsandmore By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

2025 Martin Guitar Refreshed Standard Series with Rameen Shayegan! Welcome to the Martins & More podcast S6 E6. Spoon sat down with Martin's International instrument design manager Rameen Shayegan to discuss the new 2025 refreshed Standard series as well as new Road series models 000E Retro Plus and DE Retro plus!

Martin 000-45 Joe Bonamassa! In today's episode of your favorite Martin Guitar podcast, we're discussing the "newest old Martin Guitar" in style 45 - the limited edition 000-45 Joe Bonamassa! This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     Want to support the show? Join our Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/c/martinsandmore By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

Our pals Teja Gerken & Doug Young have a new album called "The Water is Wide". Let's talk about it! This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     Want to support the show? Join our Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/c/martinsandmore By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

NEW Martin Guitars for winter NAMM 2025! In today's episode of your favorite Martin Guitar podcast, we're discussing some NEW models for winter NAMM 2025. Martin D 3 Millionth, D-300, CEO-11, Grand J-28 Doubleneck and many more! This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     Want to support the show? Join our Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/c/martinsandmore By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

NEW: Martin Guitar 2025 Standard Series Refresh and DE Retro Plus, 000E Retro plus Road Series models! Back in 2018, Martin Guitar gave the standard series some serious upgrades. Now, for 2025 they're taking it even further. But that's not all ... they're also adding a few NEW models to the series & we think they're gonna be very well-received. Sit back & relax as we discuss this exciting news from Martin Guitar!   This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     Want to support the show? Join our Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/c/martinsandmore By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

Peter Cree of Cree Studios! Martins & More with Spoon Phillips welcomes you to season 6! We 're kicking off this new season with a conversation for the ages! Our good pal Peter Cree talks art, culture, guitar, design and so much more. How did Peter Cree get involved in guitar art? When & how did he become associated with Martin Guitar? Does he really live a few blocks away from the Martin Guitar factory?? These answers and more, on today's episode. Thanks for being here! This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     Want to support the show? Join our Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/c/martinsandmore By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

Today we're taking a field trip to visit our friends at Brothers Music Shop in Wind Gap, PA! Let's see what fun projects Dave & Rich are working on. This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     Want to support the show? Join our Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/c/martinsandmore By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

Craig Thatcher & The Martin 000-11E! In today's episode of your favorite Martin Guitar podcast, we're chatting with Craig Thatcher about his new signature model and lots of other topics. When did Craig get his first guitar? What's the deal with his acclaimed Eric Clapton retrospective show? How & when did Craig get involved with Martin Guitar? Let's find out! This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

New Martin Guitar Models for fall, 2024. Martin has already released some great new guitars ahead of the official January NAMM show. OMC-10E, D-11E Rock the Vote, HG-28 O'ahu & 000-15E are just some of the new offerings already available at Martin Guitar in the fall of 2024. Sit back & relax as we get you up to speed on the newest Martin guitar models. This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

The NEW Martin Guitar Johnny Marr M6 and M7 models. Martin has been very busy this fall, releasing plenty of guitars prior to the upcoming NAMM show. Today's topic is all about 2 new exciting M sized signature models. If you're like us, and feel that the Martin lineup was lacking in 0000 offerings (the M-36 was the only one) - the M6 and M7 Johnny Marr might be just the ticket. Sit back & relax as we get you up to speed on this pair of great Martin Ms.   This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

In today's episode, we're chatting with professional audio engineer Bob Wargo. Bob & Maury met over 45 years ago & this is their first conversation in a very long time. Bob was a touring sound engineer for 20 years & has worked with artists like Rob Thomas, Sevendust, Papa Roach, Sum 41, Lady Gaga & more. Sit back & relax as Maury & Spoon pick his brain about all aspects of live sound, including acoustic guitars. This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG  

In today's episode of your favorite Martin Guitar podcast, Maury & Spoon discuss the spooky tunes that make up a proper Halloween playlist. We'll be referencing our own scary songs AND YOURS - as we take a look at all the wonderful ideas proposed by our Patrons and Facebook friends! This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG

In today’s episode of your favorite Martin Guitar podcast, Maury & Spoon are spreading island vibes & diving deep into the ocean blue waters of the NEW Martin O’ahu. This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG

In today's episode of your favorite Martin Guitar podcast - we're talking about favorite songs about fall - ours and yours. We asked our Patrons & Facebook friends what song transports them to fall foliage and & autumn vibe? Let's talk about 'em! This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG

The Martin Guitar Museum. In today's episode of your favorite Martin Guitar podcast, we're resuming our tour of the Martin Museum - with our tour guide, Jason Ahner. This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.     By request - we've set up a tip jar. 🥰  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BMGGSRXBJRPEG