acoustic

Armed with just his acoustic guitar, he constantly writes new songs, as demonstrated by the ones he’s written earlier this year.

There’s also the crazed racket of “Motorbike Song” and the alluring ballad “Big Dreams,” written on acoustic guitar and matched in tone by a wistful music video directed by longtime collaborator John Angus Stewart.

So last year in Paris, he packaged a series of acoustic shows based around themes — “Songs of Youth and Addiction,” “Songs of Love and Desire” and “Songs of Contempt and Resistance ”— interwoven with stories.

After numerous drafts and countless adjustments for angles and weight distribution, Blackwell developed two designs, for electric and acoustic guitars.

The acoustics shine in what had come to be known as Copley Symphony Hall, now named Jacobs Music Center.