The Pete Seeger tribute album for McCutcheon has been a long time coming. The renowned multi-instrumentalist was eleven years old when his mother insisted he watch with her the news reports from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Legendary music photographer, Elliott Landy, is now offering some of his most iconic photographs to the general public, on sale at his website HERE. What better gift to give yourself or someone you know who’s a music aficionado than one of Landy’s coolest of cool images of Bob Dylan, The Band, The Doors, Joan Baez, Richie Havens and more?
Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Nash burst on to the scene during the British Invasion with The Hollies before he formed the legendary supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash in 1968 with David Crosby and Stephen Stills. As Nash prepares to launch a European tour in July, Rhino looks back at some of his best-known recordings from the past 50 years in a new anthology featuring more than a dozen unreleased demos and mixes.
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) and Fender Digital today announced the expansion of Fender Play to include ukulele lessons – helping brand-new players and beginners master chords and riffs in minutes. On the heels of the Fender Play app’s successful release for guitar in 2017, this lesson content is designed specifically for uke and makes learning to play an instrument even easier than before. Combine Fender’s California Coast Series Ukuleles with Fender Play and there are no excuses for new players who want to learn fast, while keeping cool this summer.
I put together a little piece called The Picks of Rock and Roll. This included treasures I had received from Billy Gibbons, Ritchie Blackmore, Frank Zappa, Rory Gallagher, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix [I’d never interviewed Clapton or Hendrix but I did see both of them in concert very early on and got the roadies to give me picks that were lying right on top of their amps].
From the opening piano instrumental of the first track “Worlds Unknown Part 1,” to its companion piece and album bookend “Worlds Unknown Part 2,” it is clear that Walking With Giants have created something special. Songs like “Broken Truth,” “Bound” and “Different Voice” demonstrate the musicianship that attracted Lowery, Marshall and Rose to work with Noon.
Bohemian Guitars offer a bit of originality than conventional wood guitars and what better way to create a presence for yourself than to show up to a gig with this unique guitar?
Neil Young has announced that the latest Performance Series release from the Neil Young Archives is Bluenote Café – which will be released on November 13th via Reprise Records. The album collects various performances captured during Neil’s 1988 tour.
Lovingly remastered from a series of long lost tapes dating back to the early 1960s, The Attic Tapes, is a vintage collection of previously unreleased recordings and early works by John Renbourn, one of guitar music’s truly great innovators.
Bloodstock Open-Air Festival (BOA) was inaugurated in 2001, by renowned fantasy artist, Paul Raymond Gregory and run by the Gregory Family, respectively.
