World Music

The Masterful Guitarist and Entrepreneur Brian Tarquin Talks About His Music, Gear and Warriors

The Masterful Guitarist and Entrepreneur Brian Tarquin Talks About His Music, Gear and Warriors

Posted March 18, 2024 at 12:11 pm | No comments

And what’s even more impressive is Brian Tarquin’s altruism, given his support and contributions to veterans’ and other causes, and the music projects he’s driven to completion with his fellow collaborators, who include some of the world’s first flight musicians: Jean Luc Ponty, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford (Miles Davis), Steve Morse (Deep Purple), Dean Brown (David Sanborn), Hal Lindes (Dire Straits), Chris Poland (Megadeth), John Tropea (Billy Cobham), Steve Kindler (Jeff Beck), Carl Verheyen (Supertramp) and Larry McCray (John Mayall), the late Phil Naro, and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.

Posted in: Blues Interviews, Industry Interviews, Industry Interviews, Instrumental Interviews, Interviews, Jazz Interviews, Legends Interviews, Metal Interviews, Recording Interviews, Rock, Rock Interviews, Uncategorized, World Music

Album Review: Furnace Mountain’s Shadow of Plenty Lifts the Spirits

Album Review: Furnace Mountain’s Shadow of Plenty Lifts the Spirits

Posted October 10, 2023 at 3:42 pm | No comments

The ironclad heft of Furnace Mountain’s talent shows up shining on every track of their release, Shadow of Plenty. The quartet of masterful musician’s hail from Loudoun County, Virginia’s Piedmont area where iron ore was extracted and formed into muskets, wagon wheels and more, all part of the Industrial Revolution.

Posted in: Acoustic News, Bluegrass News, Country, Country News, Folk, Folk News, Reviews, Singer Songwriter, Uncategorized, World Music

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.

Posted in: Classical, Folk, Guitar Hero Interviews, Instrumental Interviews, Interviews, Legends Interviews, Uncategorized, World Music

Various Artists: Origins of Guitar Music in Southern Congo and Northern Zambia 1950, ’51, ’52, ’57, ’58

Various Artists: Origins of Guitar Music in Southern Congo and Northern Zambia 1950, ’51, ’52, ’57, ’58

Posted March 4, 2013 at 5:52 am | One comment

Origins of Guitar Music in Southern Congo and Northern Zambia 1950 ’51, ’52m ’57,’58 [Sharp Wood Records – 2002] is a collection of songs recorded by the field recordist Hugh Tracey in the 1950s in Zimbabwe, Congo, Malawi, and Zambia.

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