Christopher Thorn
Best known as half of the guitar tandem in the ’90s alternative-rock band Blind Melon (that’s his rhythm on “No Rain,” using his Gibson...
Duke Robillard’s Swingin’ R And B!
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Blues/Jazz Great Jams on “Four Bills”
Duke Robillard’s custom-made J.W. Murphy 17” archtop is the perfect accomplice for this great solo take on “Swingin’...
Mike McCready
“I smashed a lot of guitars!” says Mike McCready of his nights onstage as Pearl Jam rode the crest of ’90s grunge – a...
Aldo Nova’s 2022 “Paradise”
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Rock legend’s thunderous return
Forty years after “Fantasy,” Canadian rock legend Aldo Nova has returned with two new projects. One is a semi-autobiographical rock...
Ted Newman Jones’ West-Texas Guitars
Boxcars
Among the vast papers, drawings, photographs, and tapes at Texas Tech’s Crossroads of Music Archive is a guitar beloved by the late Jesse “Guitar”...
Manny Charlton
“I always say it’s the song, the performance, and then the production.”
Nazareth guitarist/producer Manny Charlton believes those three things, in that order, make a...
John Pizzarelli
In just over a one-week period in April of 2020, John Pizzarelli turned 60, lost his father (famed jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli) to coronavirus,...
Chris Cain
Armed with a new deal with Alligator Records and producer Kid Andersen (of Rick Estrin & The Night Cats), Chris Cain recently recorded Raisin’...
First Guitar of Rock and Roll
Like a hound dog hit by lightning, the first notes of rock and roll blasted out of radios across the country in July of...
Have Guitar Will Travel 077 – Patrick Davis
For Ep 77 of “Have Guitar Will Travel,” host James Patrick Regan speaks with Patrick Davis, from Songwriters in Paradise. A native of South...