{"id":142056,"date":"2023-09-29T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=142056"},"modified":"2023-09-29T07:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T14:22:59","slug":"nat-myers-country-blues-acoustic-guitar-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/nat-myers-country-blues-acoustic-guitar-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Myers Country Blues | Acoustic Guitar Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Nat Myers Performs Two Spirited Blues Tunes | Acoustic Guitar Sessions\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_D5Bv7AC72U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nat Myers is fully absorbed by the blues; the sounds, the stories, the feeling. \u201cThere is no music that has touched the chambers of my heart the way that the blues has.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers still remembers the first time the blues touched him. As a kid he was driving cross-country with family, his father put on a tape of Carl Martin\u2019s \u201cOld Time Blues.\u201d \u201cI remember thinking, \u2018What is this music? What is this song?\u2019 I must have listened to that tape a hundred times in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After studying poetry and teaching himself to play guitar (left-handed), Myers started sharing his own blues, first on the streets, busking in New York City, now touring around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers stopped by the Acoustic Guitar offices near San Francisco while touring with his latest record, <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/natmyers.bandcamp.com\/album\/yellow-peril\">Yellow Peril<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. He played intricate, yet driving fingerstyle, on his Mavis resonator from Mule Guitars, stomping along with fervor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Nat Myers perform a couple rollicking tunes and reflect on his road to the country blues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1524],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1542],"class_list":["post-142056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Nat-Myers-Acoustic-guitar-session.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","authors":[{"term_id":1542,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"joeystringletter-com","display_name":"Joey Lusterman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/436b88127a7aed4992dc57eb6efc6353?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"Lusterman","first_name":"Joey","job_title":"","description":"Opinionated creative slash beginning guitarist. 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