Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today announced the launch of its newest artist model addition: the Limited Edition Jimi HendrixTM Stratocaster; it honors rock legend Jimi Hendrix on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Woodstock
Guitar International magazine’s publisher, Rick Landers, ventured back into performing and songwriting recently. Since his early days playing in a downriver Detroit garage band, to basking in the streets of Georgetown and small D.C. clubs, he’s been writing songs and stashing them away for no other reason than to play them as the spirit moved him.
GWS Auctions will offer a guitar which pays tribute to the “Man in Black” – Johnny Cash. “The Man In Black” guitar is a classic example of a historical artifact. The guitar is derived from Johnny and June Carter Cash’s 200 Caudill Drive, Hendersonville, Tennessee residence. The cedar gates from Cash’s estate have been repurposed in a living, breathing instrument
Brian Johnson: A Life On The Road finds the rocker going above and abroad to catch up with a slate of fellow icons, hearing their priceless stories from their time on tour and taking viewers to the places that helped define their legendary careers. Season One kicks off on September 15 as Johnson visits with Sting in New York
Fresh from releasing his critically acclaimed solo album AMERICAN ROCK ‘N’ ROLL on BMG in April, legendary singer songwriter, guitarist, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Don Felder has announced three European shows this September
Joining Johnny Cash was his lovely and talented wife June Carter Cash of the legendary Carter Family, and who wrote “Ring of Fire” that her husband sang into the hearts of America, and the world. Both Anita and Helen Carter, June’s sister’s shared the stage, building the Cash show into a robust family affair.
Hot off the heels of his June 13th induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, legendary singer-songwriter Jack Tempchin has announced the release of his 12th solo album titled One More Time With Feeling, due out August 23rd on Jimmy Buffett’s label Mailboat Records. The album’s title track – an up-tempo country-rock tale of a couple’s third attempt at love
GRAMMY®-winning musician, composer, author and EMMY®-nominated television personality Paul Shaffer brings his popular SiriusXM® radio show to AXS TV, as the network presents the series premiere of Paul Shaffer Plus One. The weekly 30-minute program kicks off its eight-episode inaugural season on Sunday, September 15 at 8pE/5pP.
Already, The New York Times had credited Bruce Cockburn with having “the hardest-working right thumb in show business,” adding that he “materializes chords and modal filigrees while his thumb provides the music’s pulse and its foundation—at once a deep Celtic drone and the throb of a vigilant conscience.”
Legendary rocker Eddie Money (70) announced today that he is having a heart valve procedure. His doctors recommended the minimally invasive procedure after Money began to experience shortness of breath. The doctors preferred the surgery be completed last week
