Product News

Dion Releases “Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America) with Paul Simon

Dion Releases “Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America) with Paul Simon

Posted May 29, 2020 at 2:25 pm | No comments

Dion’s new album, Blues With Friends, is released by KTBA Records on Friday 5th June and is available for Pre-Order worldwide at: KTBArecords.com Dion releases his sixth single “Song For Sam Cooke (Here In America)” with Paul Simon today. The single is taken from his upcoming album ‘Blues With Friends’ released on Friday 5thJune via Keeping The Blues Alive Records.

Posted in: Blues News, Folk News, Guitar News, Product News, Rock News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized

Folk Musician & Storyteller John McCutcheon  Releases 41st Album Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine

Folk Musician & Storyteller John McCutcheon Releases 41st Album Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine

Posted May 28, 2020 at 8:47 pm | No comments

“This is not the album I’d planned to do this year!” protests McCutcheon.  Following his last release, To Everyone In All the World: a Celebration of Pete Seeger, in honor of the folk icon’s 100th birthday, he had stockpiled over 30 new songs as a pool for a new album of McCutcheon originals.  “But that pesky virus kind of put a kink in the notion of gathering a bunch of my pals and going into a windowless recording studio for days on end.  I mean I love these folks, but…”

Posted in: Folk News, Guitar News, Product News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized

Remembering A Beautiful Moment With Bob Dylan: The Story Behind the Photo Session

Remembering A Beautiful Moment With Bob Dylan: The Story Behind the Photo Session

Posted May 25, 2020 at 9:22 pm | No comments

In early 1969 Bob Dylan called and asked me to take a picture for the back of his new album, Nashville Skyline. He had the front cover already picked out—a picture of the skyline of Nashville, where he had recorded the album.One afternoon, I went over to his place. As we left the house, he grabbed a hat, and asked, “Do you think we could use this?” I had no idea if it would be good or not, so I told him “Take it, and we’ll see.”

Posted in: Folk News, Guitar News, Product News, Rock News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized

Debra Devi  to Release A Zillion Stars Overhead on April 23

Debra Devi to Release A Zillion Stars Overhead on April 23

Posted April 18, 2020 at 12:04 pm | No comments

What happens when a pint-sized female singer/guitarist JamBase calls a “supersonic fretburner” meets Gov’t Mule bassist Jorgen Carlsson? Add Amfibian drummer John Hummel for gorgeous rock and fierce jamming — recorded by John Agnello and mixed by Sylvia Massy on Debra Devi’s new EP, A Zillion Stars Overhead.

Posted in: Guitar News, Product News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized

Fender Music KK Announces The Made in Japan Heritage Series

Fender Music KK Announces The Made in Japan Heritage Series

Posted March 18, 2020 at 8:28 am | No comments

Fender Music KK, part of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) one of the world’s leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors, announced today the launch of the Made in Japan Heritage Series

Posted in: Guitar News, Industry News, Luthier News, Product News, Uncategorized

Elliott Landy Launches Kickstarter for his new book Contacting the Band

Elliott Landy Launches Kickstarter for his new book Contacting the Band

Posted February 29, 2020 at 10:53 am | No comments

I have launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance my new book, Contacting the Band. It will feature selected contact sheets of the photos I took of The Band in the late Sixties for their first two albums, Music From Big Pink and The Band. It will allow fans of The Band a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the process and frame by frame progression of these landmark photo shoots

Posted in: Country News, Folk News, Guitar News, Product News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized

Fender Releases the ’54 Eric Johnson “Virginia” Stratocaster!

Fender Releases the ’54 Eric Johnson “Virginia” Stratocaster!

Posted February 11, 2020 at 12:09 pm | No comments

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today released the Eric Johnson “Virginia” Stratocaster guitar with the Grammy® award winning artist Eric Johnson. As part of this unique collaboration with the singer, songwriter and guitarist, Fender has recreated Johnson’s 1954 “Virginia” Stratocaster in the Fender Custom Shop

Posted in: Guitar News, Industry News, Product News, Uncategorized

Ovation Guitars Announces the Opening of an All-New Custom Shop

Ovation Guitars Announces the Opening of an All-New Custom Shop

Posted January 14, 2020 at 6:12 am | No comments

Ovation Guitars is proud to announce the opening of the all-new “Ovation Custom Shop”. This purpose-driven shop is located in New Hartford, Connecticut and features a small team of dedicated luthiers and technicians who have a truly specialized focus – custom-made, USA built Ovation guitars.

Posted in: Guitar Events, Guitar News, Industry News, Product News

PRS Guitars Brings McCarty 594 Instruments to the S2 Series

PRS Guitars Brings McCarty 594 Instruments to the S2 Series

Posted January 8, 2020 at 9:27 am | No comments

The S2 McCarty 594 family can seamlessly master authentic humbucking tones and nuanced, sweet single-coil sounds, thanks to their 58/15 “S” pickups and dual volume and push/pull tone controls. This versatile tonal set up is backed by modern construction, so these guitars play in tune, stay in tune, and are intonated the entire length of the neck.

Posted in: Guitar News, Industry News, Product News

Jagged Little Pill (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Digital Release November 29th!

Jagged Little Pill (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Digital Release November 29th!

Posted November 15, 2019 at 10:50 am | No comments

Hailed by The New York Times as “a big-hearted musical that breaks the mold, Jagged Little Pill officially opens at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre on Thursday, December 5th following a record-breaking, sold-out world premiere at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T) last year

Posted in: Guitar News, Product News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized