Joplin & Sweeney Music

Joplin & Sweeney Music started as a teaching studio in Los Gatos, California. The business was opened in 1979 when two local guitar teachers, Neil Hogan and Greg Burger, met when each of them was looking for a place to teach. They decided to start the business together in a building that had been part of the old Greyhound bus station. This back-alley garage on Victory Lane had been known around town as the Bus Barn.

A few years later they moved across the main drag, Santa Cruz Avenue, to the last location on a front-alley street, Village Lane, the very same street where Neil had taken guitar lessons when he was 10 years old. Greg has since moved to Juneau, Alaska, where he and his wife, Mary continue to teach music. Neil now runs his own teaching business at home, just a couple miles away, as well as being a driving force behind TotallyGuitars, his online teaching site.

We are now able to offer our catalog of recordings as mp3 downloads, as well many of Neil’s guitar arrangements in tablature and standard notation.