acoustic guitar

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.

We wrote it on acoustic guitar, but we already had the downstrokes that you could tell were gonna be power chords.

But his six-song set on acoustic guitar was focused on his hugely successful work as a solo artist, as fans called out for favorites from his catalog.

Carlile: It was also weird for a bass player to join two acoustic guitar players — though I think that’s the cornerstone of what our band sounds like now.