Monthly Archives: February 2010
Albert Castiglia – These Are The Days
New York-born/Miami-raised Albert Castiglia is primarily, and by instinct, a blues man. But on his third album the one-time member of Junior Wells' band...
Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers on July 4, 2006. Photo: Elliot Cohen.
When Bob Dylan names your version of one of his songs as his favorite of the...
Antonio de Torres 1863
1863 Antonio de Torres
Antonio de Torres was the most important guitar maker of the 19th century, exerting an influence worldwide on the design and...
The Vox AC15 Custom Classic
Vox AC15 Custom Classic.
In the lore surrounding Vox Amplification, the AC30 is the king of the hill, the alpha male, the one that first...
Son Volt – American Central Dust
For Jay Farrar, these are the worst
of times and the best of times, to appropriate
and paraphrase a famous
line. As a songwriter and musician
with the...
Eastwood EEB-1 and EUB-1
Eastwood's EEB-1 and the EUB-1
Eastwood's EEB-1 and the EUB-1 take their design inspiration from Ampeg's quirky mid-'60s Horizontal Bass series, the brainchild of Dennis...
John Jorgenson
John Jorgenson's latest offering is French Gypsy jazz played by a California boy as recorded in Nashville and honed while touring the world over.
Jorgenson's...
The Gibson Les Paul Special
Gibson’s Les Paul Special was the last of the original Les Paul “family” of guitars introduced, and it was the first to lose the...
Roy Orbison
When Roy Orbison walked onstage, the black Gibson ES-335 around his neck wasn't just for show. Orbison was a pretty good picker, and he...
Seth Lover
The history of the musical instrument business is full of stories, from the drab to the miraculous. Some bean counters will busily push their...