Once considered in its earliest forms a noble instrument, the history of the guitar can be traced back over forty centuries (yes, that’s 4000 years). While we won’t got back quite so far in our exploration, we will explore the popular form of this instrument in song this week. We’re not going after the genius as much as we go after the topic with songs whose theme is that of the guitar. It seems that there has always been a personal connection between the instrument and the player, sometimes as a confidant and others as a foil. Our show will feature yodeling guitars, lonely guitars, Bo’s guitar, long-legged pickers, amigos, and a number of performances about ‘one’s first guitar’. Join Dave Stroud for plenty in a guitar themed journey.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Steve Earle	Guitar Town	Just an American Boy Disc 1
2	Walter Hurdt	Fiddle And Guitar Running Wild	Classic Field Recordings
3	Jimmie Rodgers	You And My Old Guitar	Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 1]
4	Jorma Kaukonen	More Than My Old Guitar	River Of Time
5	Jimmy Murphy	That First Guitar of Mine	1951-1956 (Warped 5101)
6	The Seldom Scene	Grandpa Getcha Guitar	Like We Used To Be
7	The Louvin Brothers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Long Play Collection
8	Byron Parker & His Mountaineers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Byron Parker & His Mountaineers
9	Hardrock Gunter	Guitar on the Mountain	Gonna Rock 'n' Roll, Gonna Dance All Night
10	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Steel Guitar Rag	Legends of Country Music Disc 1
11	Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers	Telling' My Troubles to My Old Guitar	Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years
12	Frank Crumit	Plink Plonki Pluck My Guitar	Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit
13	The Brown Bombers of Swing	Guitar Swing	If You Take Me Back
14	George Morgan	Mr Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man)	Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection
15	Jerry Byrd	Hilo Steel Guitar	Stars Of The Steel Guitar
16	Les Paul	Lonely Guitar (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered]	100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
17	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Yodeling Guitar	Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
18	Duane Eddy	Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar	Dance With The Guitar Man
19	Bo Diddley	Bo's Guitar	Go Bo Diddley
20	Johnny Powers	Me and My Rhythm Guitar	The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2
21	Johnny Cash	I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar	The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 3
22	Johnny Cash & June Carter	Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man	Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter
23	Kitty Wells	Amigo's Guitar	Greatest Songs
24	Waylon Jennings	Guitars That Won't Stay in Tune	Clean Shirt
25	Willie Nelson	Guitar In the Corner	Band of Brothers
26	George Jones	Best Guitar Picker	The Complete United Artists Solo Singles
27	Robert Earl Keen, Jr.	Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)	Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
28	Merle Haggard	Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)	Capitol Collector's Series
29	Freddie King	Me And My Guitar	Texas Cannonball
30	Tony Rice	Me and My Guitar	Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
31	Lucinda Williams	Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings	World Without Tears
32	Guy Clark	The Guitar	Somedays the Song Writes You
33	Neil Young	This Old Guitar	Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank