Last fall, Paul Reed Smith sat down with Carlos Santana, Derek Trucks, and Warren Haynes to have a candid conversation about tone, finding your voice, and being a musician. Recently, Smith invited Martin Simpson, Tony McManus, Ricky Skaggs, and Cody Kilby to his home studio to continue the conversation with PRS’s leading acoustic endorsers.
Former Deep Purple guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, and wife, Candice Night, are releasing new music this month with their traditional folk rock duo, Blackmore’s Night.
Lollapalooza has so many big name acts, sometimes the little guys get lost in the shuffle. Make sure not to ignore the smaller stages like the BMI stage and Google Play stage or the early hours of any of the stages or you’ll miss out on some of the best new artists. The organizers of Lollapalooza make sure they book top notch talent, so whenever you have a break between bigger acts, check out the side stages for bands like the following.
Conqueroo recently announced that legendary songwriter, Carole King ,will release reissues of four classic albums — Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King (1980), Touch the Sky (1979), Welcome Home (1978), and Simple Things (1977) — on February 28 via her own Rockingale Records label and Concord Music Group. Each includes the original photography and album notes and, aside from Pearls, has never been previously released on CD in the United States.
