Q: What was your first guitar?
It was a Cuban guitar my mother bought to teach herself to play in Havana, Cuba, in 1957. It’s a beautiful little nylon-string guitar that has travelled with me my whole life — and I’ve also used it on records. I was about seven and because I kept wanting to touch it, she ended up teaching me how to play some “acompañamiento,” which means a style of playing that goes “under” songs, and
