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  • Check This Action: A Year In Their Life

    Check This Action: A Year In Their Life

    Recently, I stumbled onto one of those “reaction” videos by a New Zealander named Courtney, who wasn’t sure if she’d ever seen footage of the Beatles or even heard their songs. This shouldn’t be surprising. The video she watches of the Fab Four, playing “All My Loving” on Ed Sullivan in 1964, was created probably…

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  • Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

    Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

    Live From the Ryman, Vol. 2

    Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is a special venue for Isbell & the 400 Unit. As their stature has grown beyond roots music, they’ve performed on that vaunted stage more than 50 times in the past decade and recorded a previous album there. This new collection reprises material from their most-recent albums, Reunions and Weathervanes, with a…

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  •  Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai

     Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai

    Bass Convergence

    Recorded at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on their 2024 U.S. tour, G3 Reunion Live reunites the virtuosos who started it all. Three sets plus the encore jam capture the energy and passion of the performances, packaged here as two CDs, a 16-page photo booklet, four LPs, and a 64-page coffee table book. Set…

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  • Michael Manring

    Michael Manring

    Bass Convergence

    Most music fans who learn that the eclectic trio 3Below is all bass players will react with, “You gotta be kiddin’!” However, musicians who appreciate the unusual will stay for a listen, especially given the lineup – Michael Manring, Trey Gunn, and Alonso Arreola. Spearheaded by Alonso on his six-string or a hybrid ascoustic, their…

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  • David Hamburger

    David Hamburger

    Top-Tier Tutorial

    Whoever said, “Those who can’t do, teach” has never heard David Hamburger. Among his two dozen instructional books and videos, Beginning Blues Guitar, awarded Best New Educational Book or Video at NAMM in 1994, boasts more than 100,000 in sales. In addition to supplying music for advertising and TV, the 60-year-old has recorded with Freedy…

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Henry Gross

Open

December 11, 2017 · John Heidt

Henry Gross’ latest album is an amazing mix of pop, rock, country, and ballads. Those who remember him for nothing…

Supro Huntington

July 3, 2019 · Ward Meeker

Looking supremely ’60s-like with its gorgeous, vintage-y cherry-red finish, petite body, and fancy-topped pickups, the Supro Huntington is inviting as…

Vox’s AC10C1

Vox’s AC10C1

Blast of the Past

July 6, 2016 · Michael Dregni

Few amps give such an instant jolt of history as a Vox. The golden nameplate, that distinctive crisscross speaker fabric,…

Nick Moss

Backbone Shiver

July 11, 2024 · Oscar Jordan

On Get Your Back Into It!, guitarist Nick Moss and harmonica savant Dennis Gruenling combine blues, swing, and rock and…

UFO

Lights Out 2024 Remaster

December 6, 2024 · Pete Prown

UFO was a ferocious live band, but had trouble translating that hard-rock excitement to the studio. They got close on…