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The Urban Music Legend called the Martin Catorce 14-String Guitar

The Urban Music Legend called the Martin Catorce 14-String Guitar

Posted February 10, 2013 at 10:02 am | No comments

If you Google the question “Is there a 14-string guitar?”, you are apt to get confused. Wiki.answers.com states emphatically, “there are no instruments that have 14 strings”.

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Guitar Center Presents The Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Collection Featuring Five Limited Edition Signature and Replica Guitars

Guitar Center Presents The Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Collection Featuring Five Limited Edition Signature and Replica Guitars

Posted February 8, 2013 at 2:17 pm | No comments

Guitar Center, the world’s largest musical instrument retailer, in partnership with Eric Clapton, proudly announces the launch of the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Collection. The limited-edition collection will feature five Eric Clapton tribute, replica and signature guitars to be sold in North America exclusively at Guitar Center locations and online at GuitarCenter.com beginning March 21, 2013.

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Going Places With the Guitar: World Music

Going Places With the Guitar: World Music

Posted February 7, 2013 at 3:31 am | One comment

This is the first in a series of articles detailing the spread of the guitar through a variety of musical and cultural contexts around the world. A common cliché states that music is the universal language; while it’s not quite that simple, I do believe that music is a venue towards the universal communication that so many seek. Due to its almost universal popularity, the guitar is an ideal candidate to facilitate the interactions needed to realize this goal.

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Bassist-Composer Kyle Eastwood Channels His Earliest Jazz Influences on The View from Here – March 12, 2013

Bassist-Composer Kyle Eastwood Channels His Earliest Jazz Influences on The View from Here – March 12, 2013

Posted February 6, 2013 at 6:23 pm | No comments

According to DL Media, it has been 15 years since bassist Kyle Eastwood burst onto the jazz scene with his 1998 debut, From There To Here. At that moment in his budding career, the press seemed more preoccupied with his paternal lineage (he’s the son of famed actor-director Clint Eastwood) than his music.

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Steve Forbert’s Acclaimed Breakout Albums, Alive on Arrival and Jackrabbit Slim

Posted February 6, 2013 at 5:08 am | No comments

Among the Ramones’ blitzkrieg boppin’, the Talking Heads’ art-school New Wave and Blondie’s thrift-store garage pop at the now-legendary CBGB’s in the late ’70s, Steve Forbert, stood tall as the lone troubadour.

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Marcy Marxer to Release Solo Recording: Things Are Coming My Way

Marcy Marxer to Release Solo Recording: Things Are Coming My Way

Posted February 5, 2013 at 1:36 pm | No comments

Marcy Marxer will release her first solo recording, Things Are Coming My Way, this March, celebrating in her hometown then across the nation touring with The Four Bitchin’ Babes and as Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer.

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Brad to Gig Across the Pond on European Tour

Brad to Gig Across the Pond on European Tour

Posted February 4, 2013 at 10:03 am | No comments

Brad released it’s album, United We Stand, last year with 10 tracks with some cool tracks, including: “A Reason to Be in My Skin”, “Needle and Thread”, and “Bound in Time”.

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Rock Writer Steven Rosen Releases Ebook Edition of Free At Last: The Story of Free and Bad Company

Rock Writer Steven Rosen Releases Ebook Edition of Free At Last: The Story of Free and Bad Company

Posted February 4, 2013 at 3:13 am | One comment

We’re pleased to announce that for the first time in digital format, veteran rock author Steven Rosen presents his exciting book, Free at Last: The Story of Free and Bad Company, that covers the legendary blues and rock artists, when Free rocked the airwaves with their blues-drenched rock, followed by the genesis of Bad Company.

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Guitar sculpture – the definition

Guitar sculpture – the definition

Posted February 3, 2013 at 4:36 pm | One comment

GraphicGuitars Sculptures are a collection of three-dimensional designs dedicated to the mystic of the guitar. Artist Paul Chase has been creating fine art paintings and prints of the guitar for 10 years.

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Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective to be Released March 5, 2013

Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective to be Released March 5, 2013

Posted January 29, 2013 at 5:38 am | No comments

Even if he’d never formed the Allman Brothers Band, Duane Allman would be a major figure in American popular music.

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