• Dwight Yoakam

    Dwight Yoakam

    Brighter Days

    Nearly 40 years ago, as audiences wearied of frothy ’80s country-pop, Dwight Yoakam was in the vanguard of country’s New Traditional movement. His stripped-down spin on the twang-driven Bakersfield sound…

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  • Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan

    Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan

    In Session (Deluxe Edition)

    Talk about a summit – this session was a Luke Skywalker-meets-Yoda moment. The live album, originally released in 1999, is finally available in its entirety on LP, CD, and high-resolution…

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  • The Hot Club of San Francisco

    The Hot Club of San Francisco

    Original Gadjo

    Django Reinhardt is inarguably near the top of the most-influential jazz artists, considering how many ensembles (speaking globally) strive to emulate his Quintette du Hot Club de France 70 years…

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  • Fretprints: Wes Montgomery

    Fretprints: Wes Montgomery

    Full House: Transcendent Jazz Masterpiece

    Wes Montgomery is an iconic guitarist – a titan in the jazz genre. Boasting a style as unique and inimitable as Django Reinhardt or Jimi Hendrix, he burst upon the scene in 1960 and immediately redefined the sound and attitude of modern jazz guitar. Montgomery’s records for the Riverside label inspired countless musicians before he…

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  • Pop ’N Hiss: Grand Funk’s We’re An American Band

    Pop ’N Hiss: Grand Funk’s We’re An American Band

    Rockin’ Patriots

    Thundering out of Michigan in 1969, Grand Funk Railroad quickly became one of the most popular bands in the world. In just three years, vocalist/guitarist Mark Farner, bassist Mel Schacher, and vocalist/drummer Don Brewer released five studio albums, became a major concert attraction, and scored Top 40 hits with “I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home),”…

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  •  The Guitars of Gary Rossington 

     The Guitars of Gary Rossington 

    A Legend’s Legacy

    When the time came for Gary Rossington’s family to decide what to do with his guitars and amps after his passing in March of 2023, daughters Mary and Annie along with his wife, Dale, looked for advice from his lifelong friend and bandmate, Rickey Medlocke. The stash was considerable – 71 guitars including his famous…

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  • Wes Beech

    Wes Beech

    Life in The Plasmatics

    From the moment he met Rod Swenson and Wendy O. Williams, things for Wes Beech were never really “normal.” Walking into the basement of their loft for an audition, Beech didn’t know he was about to become part of a stage-storming, car-smashing, guitar-chainsawing artistic statement called the Plasmatics. The product of Swenson’s high-functioning mind (if…

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  • Classics: Mike Semrad’s ’57 Gibson Les Paul Custom

    Classics: Mike Semrad’s ’57 Gibson Les Paul Custom

    Mike Semrad’s musical roots run deep in his hometown of Fremont, Nebraska – at least as far back as his great-grandmother, who sang at the city’s opera house. But his first glimpse into the true power of music happened in high school, when one night in 1962, overachieving pep-band director Bob Olson stirred things up…

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Lucinda Williams

Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You: A Memoir & Stories From A Rock N Roll Heart

March 20, 2024 · Michael Dregni

Turning 70 is a time for reflection, and Lucinda Williams offers two takes. Her poetic autobiography recounts her troubled, peripatetic…

Frank Zappa

Apostrophe (’) 50th Anniversary

July 3, 2025 · Pete Prown

Great googly-moogly! Frank Zappa’s potty-mouth masterpiece is a half-century old and now fêted with a 75-track box set. The original…

Avante Gryphon

Avante Gryphon

Game Changer?

February 3, 2016 · Pete Prown

Avante Gryphon Price: $1,495 (street) Info: www.veilletteguitars.com People bandy about the term “game changer” so often these days it barely…

The Bass That Waited

Rickenbacker’s Early 4000 and 4001

April 29, 2021 · Peter Stuart Kohman

In the January and February installments, we looked at Gibson’s Thunderbird, an instrument condemned by its maker to a quick…

Johnny Winter

Guitar Slinger

May 13, 2024 · Bret Adams

Texas-born guitarist/vocalist Johnny Winter, who died at 70 in 2014, was steeped in the blues, but many of his big…