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All Recordings are Now in Print
For the first time in years all my recordings are in print! It’s a really good feeling to have my entire body of work out there and available.
Read MorePress Kit Photo Arabica
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Read MorePress Kit Photo Home
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Read MoreMore Coffee!
Today, we’re going to make some pourover coffee, right here in my kitchen. I’ve been doing this for years, and I’m here to tell ya, it’s good!
Read MoreNew Video
I did a video for the good folks at Stewart-MacDonald last month and now it’s up. It’s part of their Trade Secrets series and I was surely honored to be asked to do it.
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Read MorePress Kit Photo Tokyo
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Read MorePress Kit Photo Headshot
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Read MoreCoffee!
People who’ve known me for any length of time know that I take my coffee seriously. Very seriously. In 1980, while on the road with Sean Blackburn, my friend Fr. Bill Teska introduced me to Don Lohr.
Read MoreSingOut Article on Dakota Dave Hull
Dave Van Ronk’s Notes for Dakota Dave Hull’s ‘New Shirt’
The acoustic guitar soloist (non-singing division) is in the company of Dr. Johnson’s hind-leg walking dog—“remarkable not in that it is done well, but that it is done at all”—and he is a rare critter indeed. There are quite a few reasons for this, both economic and musical, but the main problem for the acoustic…
Read MoreTech Sheet
Dave generally travels with his own guitar microphone, but he’s open-minded about checking others out. He does not, however, use any kind of pickup system. Dave will provide a guitar mic feed for the house. Sometimes he travels with a mic that requires phantom; we’ll let you know if that’s the case. Two power outlets…
Read MoreHull & Larson Bio
Dakota Dave Hull and Kari Larson practically define the art of the guitar duet. And when they’re not both playing guitar—when,for instance, Dave’s on ukulele and Kari’s on mandolin—they’re creating and defining a whole other kind of sound. Whatever the stringed instruments they happen to be holding at any given moment, the music that flows…
Read MoreBest Albums of 2013
Under the North Star made two top ten lists. StarTribune critics Tom Surowicz and Tim Campbell both picked it. I’m really honored!
Read MoreInside Llewyn Davis
The late Dave Van Ronk, whose early career provided the inspiration (however broadly) for “Inside Llewyn Davis,” was a dear friend of mine. The stories I heard from him and from others concerning the Village folk milieu of the late 1950s and early ’60s remind me of my own experiences in the Twin Cities a decade later.
Read MoreErrata for Ragtime Guitar Book
Something always happens while putting these things together. A couple of people I wanted to thank were inadvertently bumped from my intro during one of the revisions. Who knows how it happened? A failed copy-paste is my guess. At any rate, the two guys I missed were Jeff Molde and John Ganapes. Jeff has been…
Read MoreRagtime Guitar in the Classic American Style
Ragtime Guitar in the Classic American Style By Dakota Dave Hull Book/CD package! Ten tunes – nine rags and a waltz – composed for guitar by Dakota Dave Hull, and including a CD with full recordings of all ten. All in standard or drop-D tuning, in standard notation and tablature in double staves. Foreword by…
Read MoreBill Hinkley
Bill’s five-decade long career as a musician started with a gig at the Tokyo Grand Ole Opry in the early 1960’s. After moving to Minneapolis in 1970 he joined the legendary Minneapolis group The Sorry Muthas and toured with them nationally. He became musical and life partner with Judy Larson in 1972. They helped inaugurate Garrison Keillor’s radio show, A Prairie Home Companion and were featured regularly thereafter. They also toured nationally for decades. After a long engagement they married in 1990. They remained partners in life and music.
Read MoreFlying With Guitars
I came up with some rules for flying with guitars that have served me reasonably well through the years. I thought it might be a nice idea to share them. When I travel to Europe or Asia I have to fly. Sometimes it’s necessary in North America, too. Here are some rules.
Read MoreMy New Guitar
I’ve been trying to find a builder to make a copy of my 1935 Gibson Jumbo for quite awhile now and a few months ago I found the man for the job. I’d talked about it with Todd Cambio of Fraulini guitars, but he’s just so busy making Stella-style twelve strings that he simply didn’t have the time.
Read MoreThe National Baritone Tricone
Well, the good folks at National have done it again! I’ve been so in love with my baritone guitar, not to mention my tricone, that I thought it would be a good idea to combine the two and get myself a baritone tricone. So that’s exactly what I did; it’s a Style 1.5.
Read MoreHull’s Victory in LP format
This just in! We recently found a number of copies of Hull’s Victory in LP format for all you audiophile types out there. That’s right, you can get your very own copy of Hull’s Victory on vinyl! They’re all sealed, but some of them were promotional copies, with cut corners.
Read MoreCalifornia Swing
Information about Dakota Dave’s swing through California in January, 2007.
Read MoreClassic American Fingerstyle Guitar · An Interview With Dakota Dave Hull by Gloria Goodwin Raheja
Download this interview as a PDF Since his arrival in the Twin Cities in 1969, Dakota Dave Hull has performed and recorded with some of Minnesota’s finest acoustic musicians, including Kari Larson, Peter Ostroushko, Butch Thompson, Cam Waters, Eric Peltoniemi and Bill Hinkley. Over the last several years he’s also been performing with Phil Heywood,…
Read MoreNortheast Tour 2006
Hi to all. I hope this finds you well. I’ll be leaving home on Thursday for a couple weeks in the northeast and I’m looking forward to seeing many of my old friends. I’ll be in Lansing at the Ten Pound Fiddle along with Peter Lang on the 20th at 8, and a Guitar workshop at the Herb David Studio in Ann Arbor at 1PM on the 21st.
Read MoreSeptember 2006 News
Well, I’m just back from a couple of tours that took me to gigs in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia and Maryland and then to parts of Canada. I had a great time and met a lot of wonderful people. It was a busy time and a lot of driving but that’s what I do. Drive. If I’m good they let me play the guitar in the evenings.
Read MoreWest Virginia
Just home from a nice little tour of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Ohio. I got to drive through West Virginia three or four times and saw more of that gorgeous state than I ever had before.
Read MoreSpring Tour 2006
Well, I’m getting ready to head out on a tour that will take me to Wisconsin, Michigan, western New York State, Ohio and Indiana. I’ll be home for a few hours and then heading to Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The Yahoo site that handles these messages for me also has a cool calendar so you can see exactly when and where I’ll be. Just log into Yahoo, go to my group (dakotadavehull) and check it out.
Read MoreKirby Puckett
One thing I’ll never regret as long as I live is that my home is in Minneapolis. I got to see Kirby Puckett play baseball. Many times. I’d have seen him play more if the Twins had played outdoors, but I caught a few games at the dome every year and had the pleasure of seeing him play on the road, at storied Yankee Stadium in 1987, the first year they went to the series and ultimately won.
Read MoreTed Bogan
When I think about the great guitar players who influenced me, and there are many, both through recordings and people I knew personally, the one guy that really changed my life at the tender age of 23 or so was Ted Bogan. Ted played with Carl Martin and Howard Armstrong as part of, naturally, Martin, Bogan and Armstrong, “the last of the old-time black stringbands.”
Read MoreSingOut! Article
The winter, 2006 issue of SingOut! had a nice article about me written by my old friend Jerry Clark. Now that it’s off the newstands you can download it in Adobe pdf format here. It’s a really nice article and it was really an honor to be featured in this venerable magazine. You might want to consider subscribing; it’s an extremely worthy endeavor. You can do that here.
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