The MC404, through its numerous options, offers significantly greater versatility than other wah pedals in any price range, and evinces a smooth, harmonically rich tone suitable for a wide range of musical applications.
As much as I was captured by the primitive blues art of bluesman, Lennie Jones, it was our conversation that pulled me in to fascinate. I became captivated by the full sweep of his life that found its way from the dark holler of a Virginia jail, to the sweat-filled isolation when hunting down swamp rats in Florida’s Everglades.
Any list of seminal 1960s electric blues albums is incomplete without Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign positioned near the top. The Indianola, Mississippi-born “King of the Blues Guitar,” who cut his professional teeth as a resident of the St. Louis suburb of Lovejoy, Ill., cemented his legacy with his Stax Records debut album.
Taking up from where iconic bands like Deep Purple and Bad Company have left off, Heaven & Earth is on a mission to resurrect the sanctity of classic rock to its purest, most accessible form.
I always find it interesting to discover that guitarists, not only have a passion for guitar, but have a full tank of creativity always ready to delve into artistic areas. Brian Holland and I met in 2005, when he began his career in writing about music, with a strong inclination to steer toward the blues.
Last fall, Paul Reed Smith sat down with Carlos Santana, Derek Trucks, and Warren Haynes to have a candid conversation about tone, finding your voice, and being a musician. Recently, Smith invited Martin Simpson, Tony McManus, Ricky Skaggs, and Cody Kilby to his home studio to continue the conversation with PRS’s leading acoustic endorsers.
Los Angeles based hard rockers, Black Veil Brides, have returned stronger than ever with their latest release, Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones.
Deep Purple is one of the most easily identified bands associated with rock and roll. Each and every one of their members is absolutely legendary, thanks to the high quality talent poured into their musical work both inside and out of Deep Purple.
If you Google the question “Is there a 14-string guitar?”, you are apt to get confused. Wiki.answers.com states emphatically, “there are no instruments that have 14 strings”.
I went to see acclaimed Italian guitarist Peppino D’Agostino at McCabe’s Guitar Store, in Santa Monica, California, and was treated to a front row seat. D’Agostino is a hot ticket live performer in North and South America and Europe who has been charming audiences with his captivating full-bodied performances for some time.
