In December we’re diving into a journey shaped by four different ways of touching the strings. From the raw emotion of blues guitar to the wide-open soundscapes of progressive rock, from the intimate textures of indie to the delicate architecture of fingerstyle, each track in this playlist captures a different face of what a guitar can be.
This month is all about contrast: the warm imperfections of a bent note, the elegance of a suspended chord, the cinematic swell of a prog crescendo, the quiet pulse of a bedroom recording. These songs don’t belong to the same genre, but they speak the same language — the language of tone, feel, and storytelling.
The playlist moves like a musical arc: it opens with blues grit, expands into progressive grandeur, sinks into indie shadows, and closes with the purity of acoustic wood and fingertips. It’s a winter soundtrack made of guitar colours — electric, acoustic, distorted, whispered.
Press play, follow the threads, and let the strings tell the story.
DECEMBER GUITAR SESSIONS 2025
Blues • Progressive Rock • Indie • Fingerstyle
🎸 1) RAW STRINGS — Blues Guitar
- Stevie Ray Vaughan – Lenny
- Gary Clark Jr. – Bright Lights
- B.B. King – The Thrill Is Gone
- Eric Clapton – Old Love (Live)
- Derek Trucks Band – Midnight in Harlem
- John Mayer – Gravity
- Robert Johnson – Cross Road Blues
- Buddy Guy – Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues
Blues is where the guitar stops being an instrument and becomes a voice.
Bent notes, gritty vibrato, phrases that breathe like human emotion.
These tracks don’t aim for perfection — they aim for truth.
🔮 2) EPIC STRINGS — Progressive Rock
- PFM – Appena un Po’
- Genesis – Firth of Fifth
- King Crimson – Starless
- Camel – Ice
- Yes – And You and I
- Steven Wilson – Drive Home
- Le Orme – Una Dolcezza Nuova
- Muse – Citizen Erased
In progressive rock, the guitar becomes architecture:
harmonic bridges, vast soundscapes, crescendos that feel like galaxies opening.
Every piece is a journey, every solo a trajectory.
Here, the guitar doesn’t follow — it leads.
🌙 3) INDIE SHADOWS — Indie/Alternative Guitar
- The War on Drugs – Red Eyes
- Phoebe Bridgers – Motion Sickness
- Arctic Monkeys – R U Mine?
- Big Thief – Not
- The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
- Mac DeMarco – My Kind of Woman
- Cigarettes After Sex – K.
- The Strokes – Under Control
Indie is the home of intimacy.
Soft riffs, blurred atmospheres, melodies that sound like half-spoken thoughts.
This is the guitar inside small rooms, late nights, and memories that return quietly.
🌿 4) WOOD & SILENCE — Fingerstyle / Acoustic
- Tommy Emmanuel – Angelina
- Andy McKee – Drifting
- John Fahey – Sunflower River Blues
- Nick Drake – Place to Be
- José González – Crosses
- Pierre Bensusan – The Alchemist
Fingerstyle is where the guitar breathes.
Each string carries a small story, each touch an unspoken word.
It’s the sound of wood, silence, and melodies drawn directly from fingertips.