Dan’s Guitar RX: Rock-And-Roll High School(er)
In my November ’22 column, Ceil Thompson’s class-project guitar was nearing completion – the lacquer coats were applied and, after it cured for two...
Jake Andrews’ video encore: “Eyes On The Prize”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4SZfK3Y1VE?si=T_ePfnD4_Tt0xLaq]
Austin Great Goes Full Steam for "Eyes On The Prize"
Jake Andrews’ video encore: "Eyes On The Prize"
Jake Andrews makes a VG-social-media curtain call...
Instro-Meister Eric Penna
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoUVeoOg2sM?si=qYXT_fC6xO-V-hEN]
Blues Switch-Up in Trabants
Eric Penna’s main gig is playing bass for the garage/surf band Insect Surfers, but he side-hustles playing guitar in the...
Steve Dawson and his Tricone, “Singin’ the Blues”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7iMqQdNl8M?si=tEuqCuPsngQBaxhB]
Roots Artists Expands the Genren
The wildly talented Steve Dawson uses a modern National Tricone for this take on “Singin’ the Blues,” then offers...
Brennen Leigh’s Heart-Tugging Honky-Tonk
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySFtWr-cxhI?si=-Su_rHiOhngZZlCP]
Shades of Norman Blake and Dolly Parton
A student of the “Carter Scratch” guitar technique – melody on the low strings, rhythm on the...
John Pizzarelli Swings On A Vintage D’angelico
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdO3ry-uiuk?si=bBNFb85GdgGEHUOo]
Jazz Ace on an Heirloom Guitar
For this exclusive rendition of “Just In Time,” swing ace John Pizzarelli grabbed the D’Angelico Model B that...
Jake Andrews – “ Apricot Brandy”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXO9f5E9-cw?si=T9aYrmrYdM2Z_xV8]
Austin Stalwart Goes Full Steam for "Apricot Brandy"
Jake Andrews was just eight years old when he sat in at Antone’s with an impressed...
1939-’42 Gibson SJ-100
Through the 1910s and early ’20s, Gibson catalogs denigrated flat-top guitars as inferior, unworthy of the company name. But that tune changed in 1926,...
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Hosts “Storied Strings” Exhibit
Dr. Leo Mazow’s vision for the new “Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art” exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts stemmed from...
GA-20’s Matt Stubbs and Pat Faherty
Musical gateways opened by Jimi Hendrix and the Doors led Matt Stubbs to become a disciple of Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Earl Hooker, and the...