Cleveland-born David Wilcox was inspired to play guitar after hearing a fellow college student playing in a stairwell. His lyrical insight is matched by a smooth baritone voice, virtuosic guitar ...

Nearly two decades ago I turned on my local PBS television station and happened upon a program featuring David Wilcox, a folk artist with a storytelling style of playing guitar and singing.

Like his idol Joni Mitchell, Wilcox mostly plays guitar in open-tunings. David Crosby and The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards are two other artists who've made a career of deviating from standard ...