The world's premier communicator in the field of luthier-made acoustic guitars - Michael Watts is an award-winning guitarist, producer, writer and film-maker who specialises in capturing the uniquely nuanced voice of the acoustic steel string guitar. 

Michael has produced the last five albums - recorded at Hansa Studios in Berlin - by Australian virtuoso guitarist Alan Gogoll whose huge global audience averages around two billion views across social media and streaming platforms on a monthly basis. 

A former Guitarist Magazine Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year - Michael performs at international guitar festivals showcasing the work of many of the greatest living guitar makers. His YouTube channel has taken him around the world, creating an archive of detailed recordings of beautiful vintage and modern guitars ranging in value from £25k to £1M as well as discussions with the extraordinary men and women who make them. 

Michael contributes regularly to prestige guitar publications including  Guitarist Magazine, Guitar, Fretboard Journal, Eleven, The Martin Guitars Journal. 

Michael writes, records, and performs instrumental music for solo steel-string acoustic guitar. His critically acclaimed debut album VETIVER is available here.  

With a sound informed as much by the guitar heroes of the 1960s UK folk revival- think Renbourn, Jansch, Graham etc - as anything on the Windham Hill label - this expressive approach to the instrument has seen Michael described as the antidote to the CandyRat records style. 

He is not sure how he feels about this. 

As a journalist Michael has interviewed many of the world's greatest players from Carlos Santana, Al Di Meola, Mike Landau and John McLaughlin to Orianthi, Steve Lukather, Cory Wong , Molly Tuttle and more. His podcast Life On The Fretboard for Fretboard Journal is a series of conversations with some of Michael's favourite musicians.