{"id":133259,"date":"2022-08-31T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=133259"},"modified":"2023-05-31T20:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:23:38","slug":"thin-lear-performs-your-family-acoustic-guitar-sessions-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/thin-lear-performs-your-family-acoustic-guitar-sessions-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer-Songwriter Thin Lear Performs \u201cYour Family\u201d | Acoustic Guitar Sessions in Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For this Session in Place<\/a>, Long Island-based singer-songwriter Matt Longo, who performs and records under the nom de guerre Thin Lear<\/a>, plays the song \u201cYour Family\u201d from his 2020 pandemic release, Wooden Cave<\/a><\/em> (EggHunt Records).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longo wrote \u201cYour Family\u201d in 2010 after the passing of his grandmother, hoping the song would help comfort his grandfather as he struggled to figure out how to move forward in life alone. Sadly, Longo never had an opportunity to play the song for his grandfather, but the delicately fingerpicked composition helps keep his grandparents’ spirits alive inside of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the video, Longo plays a Martin StreetMaster 000-16M<\/a> and employs what he describes as a \u201cvery poor\u201d thumb-and-index fingerpicking style that he learned from watching Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. \u201cIt\u2019s a very simple fingerpicking pattern, and I wrote the song by just holding that chord and thinking about the theme of being embraced by those you love in the beyond.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit ThinLear.com<\/a> for more on Longo and check out more AG<\/em> Sessions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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