Having won the “Best Pop Song in North America” award for his song, “Against My Will,” at the 2020 Intercontinental Music Awards, Sean Bertram has worked tenaciously to study music at Canada’s Humber College, as well as learn enough in the studio to gain the confidence to produce his next album.
By: Rick Landers PART ONE HERE! The legendary singer-songwriter, Jesse Colin Young and I had a couple of conversations about his life in music, as well as his life and experiences throughout the years, including first hearing his signature song, “Get Together.” Our conversation shift to many transformational times in his life, including, helping found […]
Prolific singer-songwriter, Jesse Colin Young, and his contributions to music are forever woven into the fabric of the American Dream, where the fundamental elements of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are rooted in song gifts bestowed by him to all of us.
Shenandoah Run is the brainchild of Bob Melissinos who founded the group decades ago. Over the years members of the group have come and gone, and come back again. Today, the group includes: Bob who plays guitar; Jill Nelson (mandolin), John Werntz (bass); Joe Dickey (banjo), Leslie Smile Hoyle (violin), Jim Johnson (guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, banjo), Ben Hamblin (guitar), and Renee Moyer (percussion).
Many, like award-winning author, J.R. Potter, take on more artistic hobbies or career ambitions, as it’s their nature to create art, sometimes seemingly from whole cloth. Jamie and his life and musical duet partner in the Crooked Angels, Amy, are well-known in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC area for their well-crafted songs and other well-chosen music of others that prompt audience’s to hum along and smile.
Guitar International caught up with Them Guns’ front man, Navarone Garibaldi, to talk about the group’s music, guitars, snakes and a plane. Although, brought up with the aura of celebrity, “Nav” has paid his dues playing dives, sitting alone grinding through the challenges of crafting melodies and lyrics that grip and crank up an audience’s need to rock and roll.
Rocker – producer – award winning songwriter, Stacy Hogan, has been in the music entertainment business since he was a kid, at 12 banging away on the eighty-eights and getting out and about on tour with an adult country band. His new single, “Congratulations, You’re In A Cult” is a frenetic, blistering assault on demagogues and cults.
Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya is a man on a mission to introduce the traditional and contemporary music of India to the Western World. As an ambassador of Indian music, Debashish has performed and recorded with such legendary artists of sound, such as guitarist extraordinaire, John McLaughlin, the masterful slide guitarist, Jerry Douglas, England’s guitar virtuoso, Martin Simpson, eclectic slide guitar mix-master, Derek Trucks, and African kora aficionado, Ballake Sissoko.
Early on Vashti Bunyan was introduced to Rolling Stones manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, who recognized her musical talents, and who worked to help her make her first single, “Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind” (Jagger-Richards), with the B-Side a song penned by her, “I Want To Be Alone.” She would later record her hauntingly beautiful “Train Song.” (Columbia – 1966).
By: Rick Landers Having been intensely studying, performing, and teaching jazz guitar to thousands of students around the globe, Dr. Matt Warnock is decidedly the number one or most accessed guitar teacher on the planet. Matt’s background in academia, writing, editing and publishing and both solo and collaborative performing have all developed his jazz playing […]
