Need a new guitar strap? Look no further than Volume & Tone, the new company started by NYC punk legend, George Tabb, and his fashion-forward fiancé, Elena Humphreys.
After months of planning, the 2013 ADDY awards ceremony, which celebrates excellence in advertising, proved to be an exciting night for PRS Guitars and PRS friend and Flying Dog Ale Film Maker, Tim Martin.
On March 1, 2013, PRS Guitars will open its LA Showroom on a fulltime basis. Located at the CenterStaging facility in Burbank, California, the PRS showroom will extend Artist Relations’ efforts by offering musicians a unique opportunity to experience the PRS brand in an intimate studio environment that is equipped with a comprehensive selection of PRS guitars and amplifiers for musicians to test-drive.
The 50 Greatest Guitar Book, from guitarist, writer and educator, Shawn Persinger (a.k.a. Prester John) is both an indispensable reference and one of the finest tutorial books ever penned.
Robin Trower, one of the most justly-acclaimed of British Rock music’s elder statesmen, released his latest album entitled, Roots and Branches, on February 19th 2013.
Any list of seminal 1960s electric blues albums is incomplete without Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign positioned near the top. The Indianola, Mississippi-born “King of the Blues Guitar,” who cut his professional teeth as a resident of the St. Louis suburb of Lovejoy, Ill., cemented his legacy with his Stax Records debut album.
Joe Bonamassa – An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House, will be released in the U.K. on 2-CD, 2-LP, 2-DVD & Blu-ray formats by Provogue Records on Monday 25th March (followed by U.S. release on Tuesday 26th March). The release dovetails Bonamassa’s run of four exclusive London concerts which kicks off on March 26th at The Borderline.
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”.
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.
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.
