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Lace Intros Stonewashed Alumitone Humbucker

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The Lace Stonewashed Alumitone humbucker has a worn satin-black finisih with well worn edges. See it lacemusic.com.  

David “Honeyboy” Edwards Passes

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David "Honeyboy"Edwards passed away at his home in Chicago on August 29. He was 96. Often cited as the "last link" between post-war blues...

Merle Haggard

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Haggard’s first album for Vanguard recalls the folk music featured on that label in the 1950s and ’60s. Marked by minimal percussion, resonator guitar,...

Gretsch Sponsors Chet Atkins Exhibit

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On August 12, the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum unveiled an exhibit titled Chet Atkin: Certified Guitar Player, which pays tribute to the...

Lava Cable Offers Color-Coded Caps

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Lava Cable’s solder-free plugs are now being offered with caps available in four colors - black, white, red, and green, intended to help set up...

A Comfortable Crossroads?

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Robert Johnson’s “Cross Roads Blues” is more than just a song and artist that inspired and haunted Eric Clapton; it symbolized the conflicts in...

Chely Wright

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Singer/songwriter Chely Wright’s seventh album is different in tone – less solicitous and more emotionally purgative. To enhance her already well-crafted material, Wright has...

John Prine

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John Prine almost single-handedly defined the term “Americana,” but he’s really a country-music artist – a bastard son of Merle Haggard in a genre...

Harvey Dalton Arnold Blues Band

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Named for its founder, this band is steeped in the blues and modern interpretations of classics. An album of covers? Not inasmuch as the...

Eric Brace & Peter Cooper

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Eric Brace and Peter Cooper’s label, Red Beet Records, has been busy lately with not one, but two newly released CDs. The first is...
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