George Lynch
A lynch pin is a narrow shaft of metal that keeps a wheel from falling off – without it, the whole thing collapses. Same...
Hannu Könönen: Surf Stirred with Rautalanka
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From Finland’s Icy Fjords
Hannu Könönen used his home-assembled guitar to play “Lets’s Surf to the Dawn,” a track from “Sound Recycle Machine," the...
Noah Zacharin: Seriously Agile Fingerstyle
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“Lester Brown” Live From The Big Lonely
From his home in a forest between Ottawa and Toronto, singer/songwriter/fingerpicker Noah Zacharin entertains us with an...
Don’t Call it Fusion: Julien Kasper’s “Upon a Green Hill”
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Beck (et al) Connection!
The music made by Julien Kasper is connected to Miles, Beck, Hendrix, Mahavishnu, and Scofield, but brings its own sound....
Adam Levy’s Wistful Elegance
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Vintage ES-335 on “And They All Sang”
Famous for supplying charismatic guitar parts while backing Nora Jones and Tracy Chapman, Adam Levy’s latest solo...
Corb Lund’s (Acoustic) Roots Rock!
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Low-key in the living room
Corb Lund rescued his ’80s Kramer Ferrington from a hair ballad so he could use it to play this...
Have Guitar Will Travel 091 – Kenny Vaughan
In Episode 91 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, host James Patrick Regan circles back with Kenny Vaughan, guitarist in Marty Stuart’s Fabulous Superlatives. Kenny...
In Memoriam: Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine, co-founder of the influential garage/new-wave band Television, died January 28. He was 73 and passed after a battle with prostate cancer that...
In Memoriam: Lasse Wellander
Lasse Wellander, longtime guitarist in ABBA and a renowned studio and solo musician, died April 7. He was 70 and briefly battled cancer.
Wellander grew...
Headline: In Memoriam: Ian Bairnson
Guitarist Ian Bairnson, a member of the Alan Parsons Project who played on the band’s 10 studio albums from 1976 through ’87, then on...