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Welcome to my website, and thanks for your patience as I slowly add content.

I am an independent working musician living in Chicago. I've been playing since 1975. My primary instruments are guitar, mandolin, and banjo.

I like to listen to scratchy old 78rpm recordings. I like to invoke the name of Harry Smith.

My first solo CD of fingerstyle guitar music, "Ice Cream", was cited by Acoustic Guitar magazine as one of the "TOP CDs of 2002". It's sequel, "Some These Days", was released in 2004.

You can listen to – and download for free – tracks from my two solo CDs on this site on the MUSIC page.

In 2006, guitarist Matt Gandurski and I formed THE NORTHSIDE SOUTHPAWS, an all-left-handed, all-resonator mandolin/guitar duo. We perform old-time string ragtime, marches, waltzes, stomps, fiddle tunes, proto-grass, tangos, etc. In 2008 our debut CD, "Stomp Glide Wobble", was cited by Mandolin Magazine as "...one of the best mandolin CDs of the year." In the summer of 2010 we released our 2nd CD, "No Bread", which Sing Out! magazine called "...just wonderful". We think it's our best work yet.

The Northside Southpaws enjoy two weekly residencies in Chicago:

- Thursdays 10:00pm-12:45am, The Watershed below Pop's For Champagne @ State & Ohio.

- Fridays 7:30-9:30pm, Honky Tonk BBQ @ 18th & Racine.

I also teach fingerstyle guitar and ragtime mandolin. Send me an email if you'd like to study with me.

I have a degree in graphic design and typography, and during the week I work at a formidable ad agency downtown.

If you'd like more biographical info (my 70s punk band, classical studies, embarrassing photos w/bad hair, Hardscrabble, etc.) you can go to my myspace page. (Please don't send me a message through myspace because I rarely check it.) I have a Facebook page.

Thanks for reading this far. I would very much like to play for you sometime...

© 2012 John Hasbrouck