Moving beyond being type cast as a percussionist, Eric Selby, a first call Northern Virginian session player pushed the envelope with his debut album, Do Baby (Soul Stew Records – 2020), taking on a heavy workload of writing the songs, handling guitar and percussion, singing vocals and helping dial in the sound and the emotional heft of the project, alongside DC’s master producer, Marco Delmar (Recording Arts).
Roaming Smith’s albums, listening to his broad spectrum of songs with their various styles, his work isn’t readily pigeon-holed into a single genre. He colors outside the lines with an eclectic mix of tracks that sometimes shuffle along Cajun style, pump it up with ’80s new wave pop, enrich us with storied accounts that are bound in the new world of Americana-folk
Out of the West, comes Alec Lytle with an eclectic mix of melodic vocals and acoustic guitar with subtle references to both traditional and contemporary country-folk. Whether Alec’s running solo, in a quiet duet, or with a herd of bandmates called Them Rounders, he hits the marks laid out by Dylan, Lovett, Van Zandt, and the The Byrds in their rodeo days.
Multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer, producer and Nashville-based songwriter, Stacy Hogan, launched a tour earlier this year to promote his latest project, Sin Shake Sin, as well as feel the rush of performing in front of both new and soon to be fans.
By: Rick Landers Images courtesy of Yasmin Williams The first time I met Yasmin Williams, she was hauling her guitar, pedals and a bag filled to the brim with cables and other gear to a festival stage outside Leesburg, Virginia. She smiled when I asked if I could help carry some of her gear, but she […]
Marco Delmar’s name kept popping up as a guy to meet, and several Washington, D.C. area musicians suggested his Recording Arts studio as a favorite place to record their music. I checked out Marco’s background to find that he was an award-winning producer and engineer, a host and producer of a music themed radio talk show
Ryan Roxie’s System-12 Guitar Method aims to help novices and advanced guitar players to unravel the mystery of the fretboard, the ways and means of practicing and learning, and unleashing the sheer beauty of playing the guitar.
During the late Sixties, young Elliott Landy landed the gig of a lifetime – Woodstock. Asked to photograph the spirited three-day gathering of “Peace and Music”, Elliott had worked out “all access” entry that allowed him free rein to memorialize the largest rock festival of all time.
The Long Island, New York, rock group Mountain will forever be defined by the explosive song “Mississippi Queen”, with the legendary drummer Corky Laing driving the crew with a hard punch of his then massive double bass drum kit and clanging cowbell.
By: Rick Landers French-born master fingerstyle guitarist Claude Bourbon hails from Britain, but finds himself traveling the globe strapped to his trusty Gibson J-45 acoustic dreadnaught. Whether he’s playing a straight blues, thumping out some heartbeat R&B, or his own cauldron of styles that may include Flamenco, American roots music, British Isle stylings, coupled with nuances […]
