Our interview today with Welsh artist, Isaac Holmes, presents his personal path learning his craft from a very early age to today. And for Isaac, like many, he’s driven by a passion for music and a need to dig in to the discipline of learning from his guitar idols, then raising his game to create his own stylish original compositions.
The Washington, D.C. area has a very robust music community where musicians weave their ambitions and altruism into a basket of working strategies in order to build an audience of followers, a fan base.
Guitar International’s feature article at “The Good Life” is an exclusive interview with the legendary John Coltrane Quartet pianist, McCoy Tyner, who now has his “Guitars” album out for your listening pleasure.
Hailing out of Music City USA (Nashville, Tennessee), there’s a young guitar slinger, Danny Garwood, rolling out some heavy hitter blues, getting stage time with the likes of the legendary Buddy Guy, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, and other world-class artists.
Guitarist David Lindley is a pioneer of international music who led one of the first world music rock groups during the ’60s called Kaleidoscope. He would later work with singer-songwriter Jackson Browne starting in 1971 and his staggering solos can be heard ripping through such hits as Jackson’s classic “Running on Empty”.
Over the years, blues-rock artist, Linwood Taylor, has forged ahead nailing down gigs, improving his game and building a reputation as an A-list musician in the Washington, D.C. area with a deep music history rarely fully appreciated.
Dave Kline, four strings, plucking and a blistering bow; electrified. These are the ingredients that Kline brings to the stage and into the studio. Pull in some more world-class musicians and they stir a cauldron of some of the best music you’ll ever hear.
It is a daunting and perhaps completely irrelevant task, in the context of a guitar magazine, to attempt to write an introduction to an interview with Andy Summers.
One word that helps define multi-instrumentalist, session musician and more is “collaborator”. As a working musician and a superb talent, Knox Chandler has worked with some artists that helped form the contours of punk, as well as New Wave music.
Troubadour is a good fit to describe Ryan David Green, but dig a little deeper and you’ll soon realize the guy’s a guitar aficionado, with a touch sometimes so light that it sounds easy, as he bends, taps and cajoles his strings to bring out their magic.
