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Sep 22, 2009
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"Music-Words-Pictures" is a collection of Al Di Meola's greatest songs, complete with biography, discography, and detailed descriptions of Al's special performance techniques. Each song is transcribed for guitar note-by-note from
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Sep 01, 2009
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THE TWO GUITAR DUDES IN THE FREEWHEELING
improv ensemble known as Lackawanna are
pretty good at trusting the process—believing
that things will somehow work out, even if
they’re not sure exactly how or why. Take former
GP
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Sep 01, 2009
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GUITARISTS WHO BECOME SUCCESSFUL IN
country music often do so because they write
great songs or can sing, or both. Either way,
playing guitar often becomes secondary to their
careers—at least in the eyes of their record
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Aug 01, 2009
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Interviewing Otis Taylor is a lot like
a game of cat and mouse. Ask the 61-
year-old Denver, Colorado, native how
he developed his singular style—a blend
of droning, mesmerizing “trance blues”
guitar and gritty, sonorous
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Jul 01, 2009
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NAMED AFTER THE SINGING COWBOY WHO
repeatedly rode Trigger off into the celluloid
sunset and plastered his name on a chain of
burger joints, San Francisco Bay Area-native
Roy Rogers has since re-appropriated the name
for
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May 01, 2009
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“I’ve turned out to be kind of a guitar anthropologist exploring
the frontiers of colonialism, because that’s where all the
interesting music happens. European guitars arrive in standard
tuning and often without instruction,
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Feb 01, 2009
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WITH ALL THE MYTHOLOGY SURROUNDING the night Elvis Presley strode into
the Sun Recording Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and recorded “That’s
All Right,” it’s hard to believe that one man still walks this earth
who was present
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Jan 01, 2009
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FANS OF CONTEMPORARY BLUES AND SOUL
need no introduction to Susan Tedeschi. The
Norwell, Massachusetts, native busted onto
the scene in 1998 with Just Won’t Burn, and
soon thereafter fans all over the states were
exposed to
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Oct 20, 2008
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FINGERSTYLE SUPERSTAR TOMMY EMMANUEL won’t give
himself a break. Despite having to stop touring in 2007 due to
exhaustion, he’s back on the road again, and is booked solid through
mid-2009. At these one-man guitarfests (not to
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Jun 01, 2007
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Wielding a modified Fender Electric XII, Johnny Winter shocked
guitarists like a bolt of lightning from a Texas thunderstorm with his
national debut in 1968. Since then, he has burned through electric
blues like an acetylene
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Feb 01, 2007
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It’s no secret that the talent, technique, and creative force of
magnificent and awe-inspiring guitarists runs deep. And going deep
doesn’t mean studying only the obvious guitar heroes. You have to get
out on the fringes, and
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Apr 20, 2006
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“It was just another festival,” Johnny Winter deadpans when queried
about his appearance at Woodstock—which is like saying the Beatles
appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show of February 9, 1964 was just another
Sunday night. Or
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