It’s always a welcome event, when the very musically gifted and multi-talented sisters, Ann and Nancy Wilson, better known as Heart, release new music, and what a sparkling album this is. So much so, that one feels like rolling out a red velvet carpet, for these First Ladies and Goddesses of Rock.
Some people are of the opinion that instrumental music sounds routine or redundant after a while, especially when the instrumentals are in specific genres, as it can be theoretically enslaved. However, that idea couldn’t be further from the truth in Spread the Love, the 2010 instrumental release from Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters.
One of the newest blogs on the guitar block, Fretterverse, has been in my Google Reader almost since its inception. Maintaining a steady publishing schedule, most weekdays, the site offers guitarists and fans of the instrument opinion articles, artist profiles, free downloads, album and product reviews and lessons covering a variety of different styles and background.
Upon entering the Columbia Records conference room, Stevie Ray Vaughan paces like a caged lion. He has just listened to a final mix of his performance on the Rocky IV soundtrack and is less than pleased.
We had high expectations when we picked up the new Paul Reed Smith maple-top Mira guitar from their factory in Stevensville, Maryland.
The weekly guitar roundup is Guitar International’s chance to spread the word about guitar related articles from around the web that we’ve enjoyed over the past seven days. Here are ten guitar articles from across the blogosphere that caught our attention during the week of August 23rd, 2010.
Copied below is my response to the contributors’ poll H+ Magazine published on New Year’s Eve Eve, 2010: “What were the best and worst _______s of the 00s?”
It’s called the Chapman Stick, and it was one of the most radical developments in music from the second half of the Twentieth Century (the first half goes to the electric guitar).
I have been consumed by thoughts regarding the changing role of the artist in our culture.
For whatever reasons, our culture has decided that we are not all musicians.
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