Phillip McKnight has a guitar Youtube channel I’ve been watching during Covid-19 times. In a recent podcast, he said he knows many guitarists who have bought up to three new guitars during the lockdown. That seems believable because it is the number of new guitars I’ve purchased since this all…
I’ve recently become fascinated with the Fender Telecaster, a guitar design I’ve neither owned nor even played. Why the fascination with a guitar I’ve never owned? Well one reason might be the following Julian Lage video. Sometime during the past five years, I saw Julian Lage play a concert. I…
First, by you, I mean me. Some of you are doing exactly the right things to become a better player. However, I am not alone in doing less than I should to improve my chops. Second, feel free to replace guitarist with musician or whatever you call someone who plays…
I recently got hooked on the controversy over the PRS Silver Sky guitar. The guitar was designed for John Mayer by Paul Reed Smith. Mayer wanted to improve upon the best features of his favorite 60’s Strats and had lost faith in Fender to meet his needs. Since its introduction…
I promise this will be the last post on resonator and slide guitar music for awhile. But I felt the need to give you some jazz tunes played on resonator guitars or electric guitar with slide after the previous post which covered jazz on lap steel dobro. Tuba Skinny Tuba…
Peter Green died this week at the age of 73. You may know Fleetwood Mac from the lineup that included Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in addition to Jim McVie (bass), Christine McVie (keyboard), and Mick Fleetwood. Peter Green was gone by then but was a co-founder of the group.…
Annie Ross died last week (July 21, 2020). She was one-third of the vocal group, Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross who sang in a style of music called vocalese. Jon Hendricks created the style and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross were the first stars starting in the 1950s. The Pointer Sisters and…
Did you ever want to know the sizes of guitar slides? Or maybe how much they weighed? I recently attempted to find out the dimensions of a Dunlop slide I was considering buying. No one had the information. Dunlop has a PDF on their website that gives a ring size…
Although single-cone spider bridge resonators are my least favorite type of resonator guitar, I’ve still been listening to a lot of dobro music recently. Of course, my tastes run to jazz. I recently published a list of non-dobro music resonator music. Today’s post balances the content and provides you with…
One of the best ways to learn an instrument is to figure out the solos of the musicians you love by listening to them. I would be a better guitarist if I followed my own advice. Before I was born there were musicians who wore out 78 rpm records playing…
