Monthly Archives: January 2010
Jimmy Bruno – Maplewood Avenue
Jimmy Bruno is one of the best traditional jazz-guitar players around, constantly proving he intimately understands the instrument and idiom. Maplewood Avenue is the...
Danny Gatton
Photo: Ebet Roberts.
Ten years have passed since Danny Gatton killed himself at his rural Maryland home. The reasons remain shrouded in mystery, yet his...
Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe
Ray Davies has never been one to pull any punches. Ever since his days as the leader of the Kinks he's been known to...
Martin Taylor M.B.E.
Photos courtesy Martin Taylor.
If Martin Taylor ever decides to quit playing guitar, he can always launch a career as a stand-up comic. Asked where...
1963 EKO Model 500/3V
1963 EKO Model 500/3V. Photo: Michael Wright.
However you say it, "echo" or "eek'-oh," these Italian guitars from the early 1960s, along with Hagstrom from...
CCR – Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bayou Country
Green River
Willy And The Poor Boys
Cosmo's Factory
Pendulum
It's hard to imagine that anyone isn't intimately familiar with Creedence's catalog of seven albums,...
Gibson’s K-4 Mandocello
Gibson K-4 Mandocello photo: Kelsey Vaughn. Instrument courtesy of Walter Carter.
Gibson was founded as a mandolin builder in 1902, and from the outset it...
Eddy
If you're a blues fan and left-handed guitarist Eddie Clearwater's name has remained unfamiliar over the course of his six-decade career, now's the time...
The Fender Bass V
Like any other group of gearheads, bassists love to rap with peers about their stuff.
One classic debate compares five-string electric basses to standard...
Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy, Bayfront Blues Festival, 1997. Photo by Ward Meeker.
When referring to the all-time great legends of the blues and the guitar, the formidable...