Posted July 10, 2023 at 3:00 am | No comments
Many, like award-winning author, J.R. Potter, take on more artistic hobbies or career ambitions, as it’s their nature to create art, sometimes seemingly from whole cloth. Jamie and his life and musical duet partner in the Crooked Angels, Amy, are well-known in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC area for their well-crafted songs and other well-chosen music of others that prompt audience’s to hum along and smile.
Posted in: Folk, Interviews, Singer Songwriter Interviews, Uncategorized
Posted July 3, 2023 at 8:26 am | No comments
Guitar International caught up with Them Guns’ front man, Navarone Garibaldi, to talk about the group’s music, guitars, snakes and a plane. Although, brought up with the aura of celebrity, “Nav” has paid his dues playing dives, sitting alone grinding through the challenges of crafting melodies and lyrics that grip and crank up an audience’s need to rock and roll.
Posted in: Interviews, Metal Interviews, Rock Interviews, Uncategorized
Posted June 11, 2023 at 10:57 am | No comments
The concept of playing for free or for spare change is one for the ages. And the decisions for performing for little to no compensation is one to not take lightly, and should consider one’s level of talent, name recognition, commerciality, as well as the venue or circumstances that offer “real estate” to perform your original songs, cover songs or, most likely a mix of the two.
Posted in: Folk, Guitar News, Industry News, Instruction News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized
Posted May 30, 2023 at 2:08 pm | No comments
Today’s guitar review is of the Limited Edition G5622T-140 Electromatic®, a mid-range guitar that should be a welcome addition to any guitar player’s gathering of stage ready guitars. The guitar draws design features, functional electronic and hardware components, and inspiration from such masterful Gretsch guitars as those cool Country Gentleman and White Falcon instruments, that we’ve seen in the hands of George Harrison, Gene Vincent, Brian Setzer, Michael Nesmith, Neil Young and many more legendary play
Posted in: Guitar Dealers, Guitar News, Industry News, Instrumental News, Luthier News, Product News, Uncategorized
Posted May 29, 2023 at 8:16 am | No comments
Matchbox Twenty have quietly woven their songs into the very fabric of American popular culture. The band has sold over 40 million records worldwide, dominated charts, garnered multiple GRAMMY Award nominations, and played to millions of fans in arenas, amphitheaters, and stadiums across continents. Earning hits in each of the last three decades
Posted in: Guitar News, Rock News, Uncategorized
Posted May 29, 2023 at 5:00 am | No comments
When Wes Montgomery, the most influential jazz guitarist of the 1960’s, introduced a new audience to his playing with the seminal jazz-pop album A Day In The Life, he received fanfare and criticism. Entering the golden age of AM radio with jazz versions of counter-culture favorites, the commercially savvy album presented jazz to a generation reared on transistor technology.
Posted in: Guitar News, Jazz News, Uncategorized
Posted May 22, 2023 at 4:00 am | No comments
Tim O’Brien talks about his song, “Cup of Sugar” – The songs started with ‘Bear.‘ It was December of 2021, and the news was all about Russia and would Putin invade Ukraine. I had just read a book on the history of dancing bears. White Nationalism was a prominent topic, the flip side being Black Lives Matter. Trump had lost the election but was ramping up his spoiled brat act. I could imagine the gripes Putin, Trump and the White Nationalists had, even if I didn’t agree.
Posted in: Folk, Guitar News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized
Posted May 17, 2023 at 12:22 am | No comments
Two-time folk Grammy nominee Eliza Gilkyson is sharing the first single, the “brightly ethereal” (Folk Alley) “Safety Zone”, from her new album, Home, set for released June 23 on her own imprint, Realiza Records. Premiering today, the song came about after a bad accident Eliza suffered at last year’s Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. A member of the Austin Music Hall of Fame, and an inductee into the Austin Songwriter Hall of Fame, she has won countless Folk Alliance and Austin Music awards, including 2014’s Songwriter of the Year.
Posted in: Acoustic News, Folk, Folk News, Guitar News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized
Posted May 8, 2023 at 12:48 pm | No comments
Rocker – producer – award winning songwriter, Stacy Hogan, has been in the music entertainment business since he was a kid, at 12 banging away on the eighty-eights and getting out and about on tour with an adult country band. His new single, “Congratulations, You’re In A Cult” is a frenetic, blistering assault on demagogues and cults.
Posted in: Indie Rock Interviews, Industry Interviews, Interviews, Rock Interviews, Uncategorized
Posted May 2, 2023 at 1:22 pm | No comments
Now and then, a phenomenal guitar picker such as Marcus King emerges. Just as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Healey, whose meteoric rise to fame during the eighties and early nineties influenced a multitude of guitar-playing hopefuls, King also will leave his indelible mark.
Posted in: Blues, Blues Reviews, Reviews, Singer Songwriter, Uncategorized
