Music lives behind the guitar.
Everyone Loves Guitar centers on long, friendly conversations with guitar players, singers, songwriters, and music-business lifers. The best moments come when gear talk turns into memory, survival, creative doubt, or the strange path that kept someone making music.
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Everyone Loves Guitar is a long-running music interview show with a soft spot for players, singers, and songwriters whose lives do not fit neatly into a press bio. The format is conversational and enthusiastic. Episodes often begin with a quick burst of praise, a connection story, or a compressed career sketch before opening into longer personal territory. Guitar is the anchor, but the show keeps widening the frame. A discussion of a song can become a conversation about obscurity, licensing, troops and military families, or what success means when radio is no longer the only scoreboard. A session-history question can lead Charlie McCoy through Patty Page and the chain that brought Dylan to town. A career-transition episode can turn into Jeff Schroeder thinking aloud about letting go after years in a band and returning to music, books, writing, and ordinary life for their own sake. The show likes these turns. It gives guests space to remember how they learned, who helped, what went wrong, and why they kept going. Tiffany Pollack's episode moves from singing and family connection into songwriting by ear, bands, and the loss of a piano after Katrina. Ludovic Naud brings road stories, odd sleeping arrangements, body modification, and guitar discovery into the same loose orbit. Joanne Shaw Taylor's introduction leans on blues credentials, live experience, humor, and the working reality behind a public career. The tone is rarely cool or detached. It is supportive, sometimes emotional, and often openly impressed by the guest. That warmth can be disarming, especially with musicians who are used to talking in resume points. It also means the show is most rewarding for listeners who enjoy personality and backstory as much as discography. The technical detail is present, but it usually serves the story rather than dominating it. Long ad reads can break the rhythm, and a few excerpts are mostly advertising rather than interview substance. Still, the core appeal is clear. Everyone Loves Guitar treats musicianship as lived experience: work, luck, loss, practice, friendship, awkward gigs, and the stubborn pleasure of playing.
Made for: For guitar fans, roots and rock listeners, songwriting devotees, and anyone who likes musician interviews with personal history attached. It also fits listeners who enjoy warm, lightly rambling conversations more than tightly produced profiles.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by letting musicians explain the life around the music, not just the catalog. Its best interviews blend career lore, craft, odd road stories, and earnest reflection in a plainspoken, fan-forward style.
We sit down and talk with celebrity guitar players, musicians and industry insiders, who share their backstory, as well as what makes them tick. If you love guitar, music, personal development & meaningful life lessons, then stick around… you're in the right place.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Craig Garber uses musician interviews to connect songwriting and career experience with the personal choices that keep creative lives moving.
Craig Garber treats the guitar as an opening into a musician's working life. His interviews move from songwriting and overlooked material to touring stories, career changes, and the decisions guests make when recognition does not arrive as expected.
Guitars get you through the door; Craig Garber wants to know what keeps musicians going.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A songwriter conversation about simplicity, licensing, obscure songs, and how listeners give catalog cuts a second life.
Craig Garber's conversation with John Andrasik, known as Five for Fighting, centers on songwriting, licensing, and the way a song can find its place long after release.
A thoughtful reset built around letting go, music, and the slow return to everyday pleasures.
The episode follows a guest taking stock of what comes after a band has spent 16 or 17 years filling the calendar. Rather than framing the moment as a comeback plan, it treats it as a reset: returning to music for its own sake, reading and writing again, and seeing literature as…
Charlie McCoy traces Bob Dylan's Nashville arrival through the session work that helped redirect the city's musical traffic.
Charlie McCoy's account of Bob Dylan coming to Nashville gives this single-episode review a sturdy center: a session player's view of a city adjusting around a major arrival.
A loose, vivid run through band-life stories, strange rooms and coveted guitars.
The episode plays like a pocket notebook from the road, following the odd rooms, borrowed couches and unexpected hospitality that collect around a touring band.
A New Orleans singer talks ear training, songwriting, and why her own band mattered.
Tiffany Pollack's stop on Everyone Loves Guitar presents a New Orleans singer shaped by early childhood music, a strong connection to Eric Johansson, and a practical sense of how she built her voice.
Richie Faulkner reflects on a frightening health crisis, surgery, and the realistic optimism that helped him through a dark period.
Richie Faulkner's conversation with Craig Garber turns a Judas Priest interview into something more personal: a clear-eyed look at how a musician makes sense of a frightening health crisis.
A plainspoken look at how songs keep finding new lives after release.
John Andrasik's appearance on Everyone Loves Guitar is shaped as a conversation about what happens to songs after release: the ones listeners know, the ones that surface in show endings, and the ones that quietly find a life with troops and military families.
Joe Wong interviews drummers and musicians about craft, history, and the working musician's life.
Records, careers and arguments, weighed by people who listen closely.
Host Craig Garber interviews singer-songwriter John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting in the final episode of Everyone Loves Guitar.
Host Craig Garber interviews blues artist Don Martin about his music and career.
Host Craig Garber interviews Mike Ganser from the band Aqueous, discussing his background, influences, and the band's history.
Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner discusses surviving a near-fatal heart incident on stage in 2021.
Craig Garber opens with John Andrasik, the musician many listeners know as Five for Fighting.
He talks about letting go after a long run in a band.
["Craig Garber hosts Charlie McCoy on Everyone Loves Guitar and frames him with 12,000-plus sessions, 42 albums, 18 years on the Hee Haw Band, and induction into the Grand Ole Opry and multiple halls of fame.", "McCoy traces the career back to an eight-year-old's comic-book ad for harmonica lessons and to Mel Tillis hearing him at Dade County Auditorium in 1958.", "He talks through the Nashville rule that kept him working, from saying yes to a drum gig to sessions with Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen.", "The conversation also covers three-mile walks, Japan trips, a French-wine joke, and the spinal stenosis that has cut back his travel."]
Ludovic Naud of Dead Horse One explains how the band from Valence, France builds shoegaze songs with "30 or 40 takes" and then lets Mark Gardener of Ride shape the final mix.
Craig Garber opens by introducing Tiffany Pollack as the singer he first heard on Eric Johansson's Blues in My Blood.
A podcast interviewing celebrity guitar players and musicians about their life stories and what makes them tick.
A podcast interviewing celebrity guitar players and musicians about their life stories and what makes them tick.
Host Craig Garber interviews blues guitarist Joanne Shaw-Taylor about her career and latest album.