Eric Schoenberg ‎– Steel Strings. Label: Rounder Records ‎– ROU-3041.

Released: January 1, 1976.

Eric Schoenberg is an American guitarist known for his fingerstyle guitar playing, as well as a recording artist and designer of acoustic guitars. He owns Eric Schoenberg Guitars, a guitar store in Tiburon, California, which sells vintage and luthier-made acoustic guitars. Eric and his cousin Dave Laibman were among the first transposers of classical piano ragtime to the guitar. This resulted in their album, Contemporary Ragtime Guitar, on Folkways Records.

Eric Schoenberg ‎– Steel Strings. Label: Rounder Records ‎– 3041. Arranged By – Eric – Trad. Written-By – Johnny Dougherty. B5. Temptation Rag. Arranged By – David LaibmanComposed By – Henry Lodge.

Eric Schoenberg began his love affair with the guitar in 1959. He started teaching in the early Sixties and before long became the second-half of a duo with his cousin, Dave Laibman, helping Dave perform his amazing, ground-breaking arrangements of classical ragtime. Their album, Contemporary Ragtime Guitar, on Folkways Records, is considered a classic and remains a benchmark for today’s fingerstyle players. Eric also released two solo albums, Acoustic Guitar and Steel Strings, on Rounder Records.

In 1971, the steel-string guitarist Eric Schoenberg and his cousin David Laibman recorded The New Ragtime Guitar, an album of arrangements that are remarkable in that they are essentially note-for-note transcriptions of original piano rags transferred to the guitar, rather than modified to suit the six-string. Among the duets on The New Ragtime Guitar is the classic Dill Pickle Rag, originally composed by Charles L. Johnson. On that recording, Schoenberg flatpicks the melody, while Laibman fingerpicks it in harmony, adding a bass line and inner voices

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