We’re very happy to receive this wonderful review of Teja and Doug’s new album of duets from Germany’s premier acoustic guitar magazine, Akustik Gitarre:

“Tears of joy! Almost 50 years ago, John Renbourn and Stefan Grossman’s epochal instrumental duo album knocked us out with its mix of groove, ease, and poetry. In 2025, a new duo pays unsurpassable homage to this dream album: Grossman’s jazzy, catchy fingerstyle earworm “Bermuda Triangle Exit” wasn’t originally worked out as a duet, but Teja Gerken and Doug Young now make up for it – exactly in the spirit of the original, even a bit jazzier and breathtakingly beautiful. This sentiment can be applied to the entire album: fingerstyle, renaissance, Erik Satie, folk – everything culminates in a perfection that simply leaves you speechless. At times, Gerken and Young barely change the original, and yet they manage to elevate Duane Allman’s “Little Martha” – the most enchanting little etude since the invention of guitars – to a new level. And while it could be said that no new version of “Greensleeves” needed to be added to the millions of existing arrangements, one can happily welcome this thoroughly modernized version: Perhaps the first to feature slide guitar, an interlude in a jazz-waltz groove, and an improvised bottleneck solo of intoxicating beauty and deeply lyrical character. Throughout the album, the two guitars interweave effortlessly and inventive; a strict separation between accompaniment and solo is rare, and despite the detailed, polyphonic arrangements, the two guitars never get in each other’s way. Gerken and Young play unbelievably relaxed, and the tone is smooth and clear. Everything is just right here – this is what a dream (duo) guitar album sounds like.” – Michael Lohr, Akustik Gitarre