Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams: Funky Syncopation
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Fine pickin’ on “The Way You Make Me Feel”
Husband-and-wife team Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams share a jammin’ piece of “The Way You...
David Hamburger: masterful playing, 00-18 deep dive
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David Hamburger and his ’56 00-18
Singer/songwriter David Hamburger is also an impressive fingerstyle player who knows a great guitar when he plays it....
Dan’s Guitar RX: Finding An Old Friend, Part 2
In the September, issue I told the story of the ’58 ES-335 I sold to my friend, Al, for $225 in 1966. Al passed...
Wild Rabbit Salad’s “Postcard From Houston”
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Eclectic sounds from Marietta and Bucky Roebuck
Wild Rabbit Salad’s “Postcard From Houston”
Bucky and Marietta Roebuck of Wild Rabbit Salad indulge us with an...
Charlie Starr: Open-Tuning Magic on “Azalea”
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Blackberry Smoke frontman on a vintage Gibson
Enjoy a bit of the supremely tasty “Azalea,” played by Charlie Starr and his ’55 Gibson J-45....
Marty Friedman’s Melodic Grandeur
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbMCY3-6ji4?si=WtqimCxbCbMJGGNK&w=560&h=315]
Vintage Strat, new style on “Illumination”
A devout Jackson user with a longstanding signature model, Marty Friedman used an assortment of vintage guitars and...
Ram Tuli Crunches Numbers for The Guide
Combine a knack for numbers with a love of old guitars and you get... well, you might get any of a thousand babyboomer accountants/collectors....
Robbie Robertson, 1943-2023
It’s ironic that Robbie Robertson was famous mostly for his songwriting, because beneath the minimal, compositional style that marked his work with The Band...
Freddie King’s ’73 ES-355
Influenced by Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and others including jump-blues saxophonist Louis Jordan, Freddie...
Classics: October 2023
Antonio Mazzara’s passion for music started at age 10, when he started playing a nylon-string classical guitar before moving up to a sunburst ’72...