Monthly Archives: June 2005
Andre Segovia’s Hauser
While visiting the Spanish guitar exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City during the fall of 1991, I had the...
Girl Brand Crossroads
Girl Brand Guitars... No it's not a clearing house for sparkley pink and purple guitars with short-scale necks and small bodies. Rather, Girl...
The John Scofield Band – Up All Night
Scofield drives some folks crazy. His last few records have stretched the boundries of funky jazz about as far as they can go....
Robert Cray – Time Will Tell
Can "Young Bob," who slyly boasted about being a "Strong Persuader," the proverbial back door man, be turning 50?
Well, the good news is that...
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Paris 1967/San Francisco 1968
Got to hand it to the folks at Experience Hendrix, who keep coming up with good Hendrix music and packaging it in fine releases....
Yamaha SG
Of all the excellent - and generally unheralded - guitars built by Yamaha over the years, none has achieved quite the legendary status as...
The Hacienda Brothers – Hacienda Brothers
Take one of the most road-tested rock-a-bluesy guitarists in the game, the Paladins' Dave Gonzalez, and add country/conjunto/Cajun soul man Chris Gaffney, and you've...
Rob McNelley – On
I love it when this happens. Totally out of the blue comes a CD, by an artist I am unfamiliar with, and it blows...
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez – The Trouble With Humans
Some famous musical duos originate in the womb, like The Louvin or Everly brothers. Others are created by love, like Ian and Silvia,...
June 2005
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1953 GIBSON LES PAUL JUNIOR
Gibson records tell us the Les Paul Junior was introduced in 1954. But this instrument has tone and volume pot...