Brotherhood of the Guitar: Jim Evans
By the time Jim Evans saw Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival, he had already spent years playing lead guitar in a series of San Diego area rock bands.
By the time Jim Evans saw Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival, he had already spent years playing lead guitar in a series of San Diego area rock bands.
The masterful blues guitarists, Joe Bonamassa, has announced that after the release on March 25th of his live album and DVD, An Acoustic Evening At The Vienna Opera House, he will embark on a seven date U.K. Arena Tour in September 2013.
March 8, 2013 – John Fogerty will close out SXSW this year on a high note with a special performance Saturday, March 16 at 10:00 PM at the ACL Moody Theatre in Austin, Texas.
Chris Cooper’s debut album, Lines, sits comfortably in that space between melodic subtlety and full-on shred. A mix of jazz, blues, and rock, and inspired by the likes of Eric Johnson and Robben Ford, Lines is an instrumental guitar album for discerning listeners.
Bad Company and Lynyrd Skynyrd have announced a co-headline tour that takes the bands coast-to-coast for 12 dates. Both bands celebrate significant 40th anniversaries in 2013, with Lynyrd Skynyrd having released their debut album on August 13, 1973 and Bad Company being formed that same year.
Spin Doctors will release their new album, If The River Was Whiskey, in the U.K. on May 6 through Ruf Records (US release is April 30).
Michael Nesmith will launch the month-long Nez Solo Spring 2013 Tour on March 21 outside of Nashville as Nez’s Solo Spring 2013 Tour prepares to take him to the metro areas of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
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”.
