This guitar has single-handedly inspired me to start learning the guitar parts to both Mark Knopfler's Get Lucky and Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant Massacree. No other guitar I've played has made me learn songs, but those two songs just fit so well on the Julian Black. The guitar sounds incredible, with a bright, resonant sound, and sounds great for finger-picking and strumming alike. My first every steel-string acoustic, 10/10, would buy again.