Guy Van Duser

{{short description|American jazz musician}}

Guy Van Duser (born 1948) is an American jazz{{cite web |last1=arwulf |first1=arwulf |title=Guy Van Duser |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/guy-van-duser-mn0000546412/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=13 December 2020}} and folk guitarist. He recorded for Rounder from the 1970s to the 1990s and often appeared on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion.

His guitar arrangement of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" was played by Chet Atkins.{{Cite web |url=http://home.socal.rr.com/feltenmichelle/van_duser.htm |title=Guy Van Duser Interview |access-date=2008-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905144431/http://home.socal.rr.com/feltenmichelle/van_duser.htm |archive-date=2008-09-05 |url-status=dead }}[https://www.berklee.edu/berklee-today/fall-2011/guy-van-duser "The Stars and Stripes Forever" for Solo Guitar] (includes link to sheet music pdf) Van Duser has been a professor of guitar at Berklee College of Music.[http://www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail.php?id=1150&type=last_name&value=van%20duser&skip=0 Berklee Faculty Biographies]

Discography

  • Old Wood and Winter Wine with Bill Staines (Mineral River, 1977)
  • Finger Style Guitar Solos (Rounder, 1977)
  • The New Pennywhistle Album with Billy Novick (Green Linnet, 1978)
  • Get Yourself a New Broom... with Billy Novick (Rounder, 1979)
  • Stride Guitar (Rounder, 1981)
  • Raisin' the Rent with Billy Novick (Rounder, 1982)
  • Got the World On a String (Rounder, 1985)
  • These 'n' That 'n' Those with Billy Novick (Rounder, 1986)
  • American Fingerstyle Guitar (Rounder, 1987)
  • Exactly Like Us with Billy Novick (Rounder, 1989)
  • Guy & Billy with Billy Novick (Daring, 1994)
  • Every Little Moment with Billy Novick (Daring, 1996)
  • Lovely Sunday Afternoon (Daring, 2000)
  • A Session with Guy Van Duser (CDBaby, 2012)

Books

  • Stride Guitar (Mel Bay Publications, Inc., {{ISBN|0-7866-4668-3}})

References