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McCabe's Guitar Shop is a
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store and live music venue on Pico Boulevard in
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, United States. Opened in 1958 by Gerald L. McCabe, a well-known furniture designer. McCabe's specializes in acoustic and folk instruments, including
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s,
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s, dulcimers,
fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...
s,
ukulele The ukulele ( ; ); also called a uke (informally), is a member of the lute (ancient guitar) family of instruments. The ukulele is of Portuguese origin and was popularized in Hawaii. The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and con ...
s, psaltries,
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s, ouds, and ethnic percussion. Since 1969, McCabe's has also been a noted forum for folk concerts.


Concerts at McCabe's

The decor at McCabe's is stripped down, with concerts being given in a back room with folding chairs and walls covered with vintage guitars, banjos, ukuleles and other instruments. A poll by '' Los Angeles Magazine'' in 2008 ranked McCabe's as one of the 32 greatest things about Los Angeles, with McCabe's defeating the Hollywood Bowl in a direct face-off. In ''The Guide'' prepared by the ''
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'', McCabe's is described as "an achingly intimate room" with a "bare-bones setting" featuring "the best guitar music west of the 405 Freeway." ''The Guide'' continues: "Legends, traveling
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s and local talent—they all seem to pass through McCabe's at some point. They may be there to get their guitars fixed; the club has a day job as one of the oldest
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stores in the city." Frommer's describes the McCabe's experience as "intimate in the extreme; the gig would have to be in your living room to get any cozier." The
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guide to Los Angeles calls McCabe's "a mild-mannered guitar/stringed instrument shop by day" that "opens up as a world-class concert venue by night." At full capacity the concert room holds 150. The first concert was held in 1969, a benefit concert to help Elizabeth Cotton with travel fare to get her back home after a concert engagement elsewhere was cancelled, leaving her stranded in the area. That first concert was organized by Mike Seeger and the line-up featured Bryndle, Karla Bonoff, Andrew Gold, and Kenny Edwards. The opening act was
Jackson Browne Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 30 million albums in the United States. Emerging as a teenage songwriter in mid-1960s Los Angeles, he had his ...
. McCabe's is owned by Robert and Esperanza Riskin. Robert is the son of actress Fay Wray and screenwriter Robert Riskin ("
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"). The Riskins retired from running the store in 2020, citing COVID. McCabe's Guitar Shop is now run by the Riskins' daughter Nora McGraw and her husband Walt McGraw. Concerts returned to McCabe's in 2022 after the COVID hiatus.


Performers

The list of past performers includes: *
Mose Allison Mose John Allison Jr. (November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016) was an American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter. He became notable for playing a unique mix of blues and modern jazz, both singing and playing piano. After moving to N ...
* Altan * Dave Alvin * The Aman Folk Orchestra * Alistair Anderson *
Chet Atkins Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson (musician), Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nash ...
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Ginger Baker Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) was an English drummer. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", for a style that melded jazz and Music of Africa, Africa ...
* Battlefield Band *
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* Pierre Bensusan * Byron Berline and Sundance * Krishna Bhatt * The Blind Boys of Alabama * Frank Black * Norman Blake * Blanche * Michael Bloomfield *
Eric Bogle Eric Bogle (born 23 September 1944) is an Australian folk music, folk singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia at the age of 25 to settle near Adelaide, South Australia. Bogle's songs have covered a variety of to ...
* Boys of the Lough * Paul Brady * David Bromberg *
Jackson Browne Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 30 million albums in the United States. Emerging as a teenage songwriter in mid-1960s Los Angeles, he had his ...
* Kevin Burke & Michael O'Domhnaill * T Bone Burnett *
J. J. Cale John Weldon "J. J." Cale (December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Though he avoided the limelight, his influence as a musical artist has been acknowledged by figures such as Neil Young, Mark Knopf ...
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John Cale John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles across rock, dr ...
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* Liz Carroll & John Doyle * Lori Carson * Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer *
Martin Carthy Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, as well as later ar ...
* Peter Case * Exene Cervenka *
Alex Chilton William Alexander Chilton (December 28, 1950March 17, 2010) was an American musician, best known as the lead singer of the rock bands the Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton's early commercial success in the 1960s as a teen vocalist for the Box Tops ...
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Clannad Clannad () were an Irish band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal, by siblings , and (Moya) (in English, Brennan) and their twin uncles Noel and (Duggan). They have adopted various musical styles throughout their history. Beginn ...
* Gene Clark *
Shawn Colvin Shawn Colvin (born Shawna Lee Colvin, January 10, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her 1997 Grammy Award-winning song "Sunny Came Home". Early life Colvin was born Shawna Lee Colvin in Vermillion, South Dakota, and ...
* Elizabeth Cotten * Cowboy Junkies * Marshall Crenshaw * Evan Dando * De Dannan *
John Densmore John Paul Densmore (born December 1, 1944) is an American musician. He is best known as the drummer of the Rock music, rock band the Doors and as such is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He appeared on every recording made by the band, ...
* The Dillards *
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* Hamza El Din * Steve Earle * Joe Ely *
Fairport Convention Fairport Convention are an English British folk rock, folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson (musician), Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Marti ...
* Archie Fisher * Black Francis * Glenn Frey * Bill Frisell * Dick Gaughan * Giant Sand * Vince Gill * Steve Gillette * Jimmie Dale Gilmore *
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* Tracy Grammer *
Arlo Guthrie Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk music, folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing protest song, songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his fa ...
* Dirk Hamilton * John Wesley Harding *
PJ Harvey Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English singer-songwriter. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments. Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automat ...
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Richie Havens Richard Pierce Havens (January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music encompassed elements of folk music, folk, soul music, soul (both of which he frequently cover song, covered), and rhythm and b ...
* John Hiatt * Dan Hicks *
Chris Hillman Christopher Hillman (born December 4, 1944) is an American musician. He was the original bassist of the Byrds. With frequent collaborator Gram Parsons, Hillman was a key figure in the development of country rock, defining the genre through his w ...
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Robyn Hitchcock Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar. After leading the Soft Boys in the late 1970s and releasing the ...
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Camper Van Beethoven Camper Van Beethoven is an American rock band formed in Redlands, California, in 1983, later based in Santa Cruz and San Francisco. Their style mixes elements of pop, ska, punk, folk, alternative, country, and world music, among other ge ...
* John Lee Hooker * Hot Tuna * Andy Irvine *
Jefferson Starship Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1974 by a group of musicians including former members of Jefferson Airplane. Between 1974 and 1984, they released eight RIAA certification, gold or Music rec ...
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Paul Kantner Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and a secondary vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture of ...
* Bobby Kimmel * Klezmorim *
Neil Innes Neil James Innes (; 9 December 1944 – 29 December 2019) was an English writer, comedian and musician. He first came to prominence in the comedy rock group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later became a frequent collaborator with the Monty Py ...
* The Incredible String Band * I See Hawks In LA * Bert Jansch * Jorma Kaukonen * Dolores Keane * Paul Kelly * Steve Kilbey * Al Kooper * Krysia Krystianne *
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* David Lindley * Mance Lipscomb * Nils Lofgren * Long Ryders * Longbranch Pennywhistle * Ewan MacColl &
Peggy Seeger Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American Folk music, folk singer and songwriter. She has lived in Britain for more than 60 years and was married to the singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl until his death in 1989. She is a member ...
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* Ray Manzarek *
Aimee Mann Aimee Elizabeth Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter. Over the course of four decades, she has released ten studio albums as a solo artist. She is noted for her sardonic and literate lyrics about dark subjects, often d ...
* John Martyn *
J Mascis Joseph Donald Mascis Jr. (born December 10, 1965), better known as J Mascis, is an American musician who is the singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. He has also released several albums as a solo artist a ...
* Mary Lee and Nancy * Mary McCaslin * The Del McCoury Band * Joe & Antoinette McKenna * Paula McMath * James McMurtry *
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* Mick Moloney * Bob Mould *
Maria Muldaur Maria Muldaur (born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato; September 12, 1942) is an American folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1973 hit song " Midnight at the Oasis" and h ...
* Muzsikas *
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* Tracy Newman * The Nields *
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* Mojo Nixon *
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* Maura O’Connell * Odetta * Liam O’Flynn & Donal Lunny * Herb Ohta * Old Blind Dogs * Carla Olson *
Van Dyke Parks Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger, record producer, singer, and former Warner Bros. Records executive whose work encompasses orchestral pop, elaborate recording experiments, Ame ...
* Patrick Street *
Tom Paxton Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter whose career spans more than sixty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
* Pentangle *
Liz Phair Elizabeth Clark Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Phair was raised primarily in the Chicago area. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1990, she attempted to sta ...
* Sam Phillips * Utah Phillips * Plimsouls *
Maddy Prior Madeleine Edith Prior MBE (born 14 August 1947) is an English folk rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span. She was born in Blackpool and moved to St Albans in her teens. Her father, Allan Prior, was co-creator of the p ...
* Kenny Rankin * R.E.M. * Jean Redpath *
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* John Renbourn *
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* Stan Rogers *
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Tom Rush Tom Rush (born February 8, 1941) is an American folk and blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose success helped launch the careers of other singer-songwriters in the 1960s and who has continued his own singing career for 60 years. Life ...
* Rick Ruskin *
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* Billy Joe Shaver *
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Jane Siberry Jane Siberry ( ; ; born 12 October 1955) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for such hits as "Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", "One More Colour" and "Calling All Angels (Jane Siberry song), Calling All Angels". She performed the theme so ...
* Silly Wizard * Spinal Tap * Jody Stecher *
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* Andy Stewart & Gerry O’Beirne *
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* Lyle Ritz * John David Souther * June Tabor * Tannahill Weavers * Jack Tempchin * They Might Be Giants * Richard Thompson (musician), Richard Thompson * Russ Tolman * Train to Sligo * Venice * Tom Verlaine * Loudon Wainwright III * Tom Waits * M. Ward * Jennifer Warnes * The Watersons * Doc Watson * Lucinda Williams * Robin Williamson * Nancy Wilson (guitarist), Nancy Wilson * George Winston * Gabriel Yacoub * J. D. Crowe & The New South * Dream Syndicate


Live at McCabe's: Live albums recorded at McCabe's

In the mid-1970s Takoma Records had offices two doors east of McCabes and built a recording studio, with audio and video cables going from the sound booth at McCabes to the control room of the studio, which allowed easy recording of concerts. These master live recordings now reside within the McCabe's Guitar Shop Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Southern Folklife Collection. Numerous artists have also recorded live albums at McCabe's (some of which were recorded using Takoma Studios from the mid-1970s to early 1980s) including: * Norman Blake: ''Live at McCabe's (Norman Blake album), Live at McCabe's'' released in 1976 *Mike Bloomfield: ''I'm With You Always'' (Recorded 1977, Benchmark Recordings) * Byron Berline: ''Live at McCabe's'' released in 1978 *
Maria Muldaur Maria Muldaur (born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato; September 12, 1942) is an American folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1973 hit song " Midnight at the Oasis" and h ...
Gospel Nights (with the Chambers Brothers) (1980, Takoma Records, TAK-7084) *Ted Hawkins: ''The Final Tour'' (1998, Evidence Music) *Townes Van Zandt: ''Live at McCabe's (Townes Van Zandt album), Live at McCabe's'' recorded in 1995 *Ralph Stanley: ''Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop 2-11-01'' *
Tom Paxton Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter whose career spans more than sixty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
: ''Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop'' recorded in 1991 * Henry Rollins: ''Live at McCabe's (Henry Rollins album), Live at McCabe's'' recorded June 1990 * Robin Williamson: ''Merry Band's Farewell Concert at McCabe's'' recorded in 1979 *Nancy Wilson (guitarist), Nancy Wilson (from Heart (band), Heart): ''Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop'' released in 1999 * Freedy Johnston: ''Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop'' released in 1998 * John Stewart (musician), John Stewart: ''Deep in the Neon: Live at McCabe's'' released in 1991 * Chris Smither: ''Chris Smither Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop 3/14/03'' *David Hatfield: ''David Hatfield Live at McCabe's'' released in 2003 * Lyle Ritz & Herb Ohta: ''A Night of Ukulele Jazz Live at McCabe's'' recorded in 2000 * Paul Siebel: ''Live at McCabe's'' released in 1981 * Batdorf & Rodney: ''Live at McCabe's 1975'' * Gene Clark & Carla Olson - Silhouetted In Light Pianist George Winston recorded a song, "Blues in G," at McCabe's in 1975. It was later released as a bonus track of the expanded edition of his first album, Piano Solos (George Winston album). A bootleg recording was also made of R.E.M.: ''Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop'' in 1987, some of which have appeared as legitimate B-sides. Bruce Springsteen joined John Wesley Harding onstage at a show to help sing Springsteen's "Wreck on the Highway," which later turned up on a Harding release. Numerous audience tapes circulate of McCabe's performances, and several soundboards, including a set by T Bone Burnett in December 1993 that featured the Williams Brothers, Maria McKee and a cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You." It also featured "My Life and the Women Who Lived It." Days later, Burnett performed at Rockpalast in Europe and claimed that "My Life..." was written on the flight to Europe. That was clearly not true. John Hiatt sang many of his songs from "Bring the Family" at several McCabe's shows just prior to recording that album. Those songs included "Memphis in the Meantime," "Your Dad Did" and "Lipstick Sunset," among others. McCabe's booker at the time, John Chelew, produced "Bring the Family," which was recorded in four days and became Hiatt's best-known album.


Gerald McCabe

Gerald McCabe was born in Long Beach, California, in 1927. He graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, and served in the United States Navy, U.S. Navy during World War II. He studied at University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, earning a bachelor's degree, then at California State University, Long Beach, Cal State Long Beach, where he earned a Master's degree, master's. McCabe established his guitar shop in 1958. After deciding to focus on furniture design, he sold the business in 1986. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2004, shortly after which he moved to Eugene, Oregon, to be nearer his daughters. He married four times, each ending in divorce. McCabe died in 2010, aged 82, after suffering a cardiac arrest.


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