The 50 years of McCabe’s Guitar Shop will be celebrated with a three-hour special on KCRW airing from 9 a.m. to noon on Thanksgiving Day.
The guitar shop was founded 50 years ago and its back room has, over the last 30-plus years, become one of L.A.'s most treasured concert venues. I consider it key to my musical education.
Program was inspired by the McCabe's 50th Anniversary Reunion Concert held at UCLA’s Royce Hall in October. Show will be hosted by current concert director Lincoln Myerson, and features interviews with all five of McCabe’s concert directors, as well as current owner Robert Riskin, former owner Walter Camp and  many of the artists who have performed there, including T Bone Burnett, Dave Alvin, Loudon Wainwright III and Peter Case.
The show also features performances recorded at McCabe’s by Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, JD Crowe and the New South, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, Jesse Winchester, John Hiatt, Dave Alvin, Richard Thompson, Gillian Welch, Dan Hicks and others.