Monthly Archives: December 2009
Schecter Yngwie Malmsteen
1986 Schecter Yngwie Malmsteen
For most of the 1970s I didn't listen to or play electric guitar music of any kind, only acoustic music. I...
Jerry Douglas – Glide
Fans may argue whether Jerry Douglas is the greatest dobro player of all time, but few will dispute that he's the finest player of...
Doitsch Hawaiian Guitar
1939 Doitsch Hawaiian Guitar. Photo: Michael Wright.
If there's a foundation for the enthusiasm for vintage guitars, it's based on a somewhat arbitrary hierarchy of...
Rusty Truck
Jakob Dylan, Gillian Welch, Lenny Kravitz, T-Bone Burnett, Willie Nelson, and even Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas all have a hand in producing, singing, and...
Gibson Style U
Gibson Style U. Courtesy Gruhn Guitars.
This Gibson Style U harp guitar, made in 1906 or '07, represents the top level of the Gibson lineup...
Bill Monroe – Father of Bluegrass
First released on VHS in the mid '90s, this documentary deifies Bill
Monroe as the founder of bluegrass music and as an all-around swell
guy. Whether...
Trikuti – Trikuti
Trikuti is a unique band that goes from jazz to metal and back, not in a song-to-song pattern, but in the space of a...
Matt Rae – High Strung
Matt Rae's new record stretches beyond the Telecaster playing for which he is so well-known to include old-fashioned music a la Jimmy Bryant and...
Van Morrison – Under Review
A documentary on Van Morrison's most fruitful years including live concert footage would be welcomed by fans everywhere. Yet the academic subtitle here says...
Delirium Blues Project – Server or Suffer
This live CD begins by asking the musical question, "What Is Hip?" Singer Roseanna Vitro and her octet transform Tower Of Power's dexterous funk...