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Review: Gruene OG-30 “AMELIA” All Solid Wood Guitar

Review: Gruene OG-30 “AMELIA” All Solid Wood Guitar

Posted May 1, 2023 at 1:03 am | No comments

The Gruene OG-30 is very similar to an orchestra style Martin with a sound that matches and craftsmanship that’s on par. The Gruene has more bling in the form of natural abalone snowflakes, up and down the fretboard and two that accentuate the bridge. The Gruene name up top at the headstock is also real abalone, no fake stuff here…

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An Interview with India’s Slide Guitar Ambassador Debashish Bhattacharya

An Interview with India’s Slide Guitar Ambassador Debashish Bhattacharya

Posted April 30, 2023 at 6:21 pm | No comments

Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya is a man on a mission to introduce the traditional and contemporary music of India to the Western World. As an ambassador of Indian music, Debashish has performed and recorded with such legendary artists of sound, such as guitarist extraordinaire, John McLaughlin, the masterful slide guitarist, Jerry Douglas,  England’s guitar virtuoso, Martin Simpson, eclectic slide guitar mix-master, Derek Trucks, and African kora aficionado, Ballake Sissoko.

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Pink Floyd Commemorate Dark Side of the Moon Album’s 50th Anniversary (Videos-Music)

Pink Floyd Commemorate Dark Side of the Moon Album’s 50th Anniversary (Videos-Music)

Posted April 20, 2023 at 5:30 am | No comments

The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the most celebrated albums of all time and has sold over 50 million copies worldwide. It is widely considered one of the most influential and groundbreaking albums ever. Pink Floyd have released a new deluxe box set including CD and gatefold vinyl of the newly remastered studio album and Blu-Ray + DVD audio featuring the original 5.1 mix and remastered stereo versions.

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Lauren Calve Announces “Shift” May 26 Ahead Of Stellar All-Star Debut Album

Lauren Calve Announces “Shift” May 26 Ahead Of Stellar All-Star Debut Album

Posted April 19, 2023 at 12:20 pm | No comments

Lauren Calve has been undergoing a metamorphosis in her life, a massive shift.  You can hear it seeping through every song, oozing out of every lyric, and feel the shedding of her skin with every note on her first full-length album, Shift, out September 1.  The subtle and understated yearning in her voice, the intonation in her haunting vocals and delivery, Calve is longing for something more. 

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Roots Singer Tracy Nelson First Album in Over 10 Years: Life Don’t MIss Nobody

Roots Singer Tracy Nelson First Album in Over 10 Years: Life Don’t MIss Nobody

Posted April 17, 2023 at 8:36 pm | No comments

Iconic roots singer Tracy Nelson, who burst onto the Rock and Roll scene in the mid-1960s as lead singer in the San Francisco-based group Mother Earth and her legendary vocals on the classic, “Down So Low,” will release her first album in over 10 years, Life Don’t Miss Nobody, June 9th on the BMG label.

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Bruce Cockburn “On A Roll” With North American & UK Tour In Support Of Forthcoming Album, O Sun O Moon

Bruce Cockburn “On A Roll” With North American & UK Tour In Support Of Forthcoming Album, O Sun O Moon

Posted April 17, 2023 at 11:45 am | No comments

Bruce Cockburn has won 13 JUNO Awards, an induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada, among many other accolades.

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Yashti Bunyan Interview: Her Life & Times, Magical Music and Return (Bonus Video)

Yashti Bunyan Interview: Her Life & Times, Magical Music and Return (Bonus Video)

Posted April 10, 2023 at 11:46 pm | No comments

Early on Vashti Bunyan was introduced to Rolling Stones manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, who recognized her musical talents, and who worked to help her make her first single, “Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind” (Jagger-Richards), with the B-Side a song penned by her, “I Want To Be Alone.” She would later record her hauntingly beautiful “Train Song.” (Columbia – 1966).

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Top Jazz Guitar Instructor Dr. Matt Warnock and His Road to World-Wide Success

Top Jazz Guitar Instructor Dr. Matt Warnock and His Road to World-Wide Success

Posted April 4, 2023 at 11:30 am | 2 comments

By: Rick Landers Having been intensely studying, performing, and teaching jazz guitar to thousands of students around the globe, Dr. Matt Warnock is decidedly the number one or most accessed guitar teacher on the planet. Matt’s background in academia, writing, editing and publishing and both solo and collaborative performing have all developed his jazz playing […]

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Traditional-Roots Music Icon Stephen Wade Releases Hands on the Tune!

Traditional-Roots Music Icon Stephen Wade Releases Hands on the Tune!

Posted April 3, 2023 at 10:41 am | No comments

On this live concert album recorded in 2017 and 2022, Stephen Wade draws from songs, melodies, and styles rooted in Southeastern folk tradition. Based on a lifetime of personal contact with exemplars of this music, his performances attest to a welcome truth: that individuals adapting a traditional tune can renew a shared repertory.

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Clay Melton Talks About His Upcoming Single “Alive on a Wire,” And His Rockin’ Tour

Clay Melton Talks About His Upcoming Single “Alive on a Wire,” And His Rockin’ Tour

Posted April 3, 2023 at 5:14 am | No comments

Guitarist Clay Melton’s roots lie in the worked lands of Louisiana and Texas where traditional and rock blues grew with the making of the old Chitlin’ Circuit with the likes of BB King, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, as well as newcomers, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan

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