Monthly Archives: July 2013
The Cash Box Kings
The Cash Box Kings are part of the multi-ethnic, crossgenerational, Chicago-based community of musicians that includes the Killborn Alley Blues Band, guitarist Billy Flynn,...
Various artists
This double-disc contains some of the most challenging guitar music recorded in the past year. While the four featured guitarists – Alex Machacek, Wayne...
Ultrasound Amplifiers Intros CP100
Ultrasound Amplifiers’ CP100 acoustic amp has a custom 8” speaker, a tweeter, 100 watts of output, and digital effects. Channel One has XLR and...
Eli Cook
As music evolves and grows, it sometimes hits roadblocks. That has been a problem in the past with the blues. Eli Cook’s latest album...
Pat Martino
Martino has been recording for almost 50 years, originally as sideman to such funk-jazz greats as saxophonist Willis “Gator” Jackson and organists Brother Jack...
Blackstar Amps Adds TL Pedal Line
Blackstar Amplification has added a range of compact boost, overdrive, and distortion pedals known as the LT series. Derived from Blackstar's HT range, each...
Shelby Lynne
Revelation Road comes from an artist who knows exactly what she wants and how to get it, and can come up with an end...
Grateful Dead
The triple-LP Europe ’72 is a highlight in the Dead’s extensive live catalog, and 40 years later Rhino is presenting a companion set of...
Ambrosonics Intros Pickup Director Switching System
The Ambrosonics Pickup Director is a programmable/reconfigurable pickup switching system that uses optical switching technology. Designed to fit guitars and basses, it allows pickups...
Hilton Valentine
For players in their late 50s and early 60s, the Animals’ #1 “House Of The Rising Sun” is often cited as a benchmark, with...