The 18th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, September 16-18 in Telluride, Colorado, will be headlined by Willie Nelson, with performances by Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Dweezil Zappa, moe., Marcia Ball, Mavis Staples, Eric Bibb String Band, and many other acts. For more, visit tellurideblues.com.  

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The Brunetti Vanilla pedal is designed to produce blues-rhythm and defined rock tones. It uses German-made WIMA capacitors, metal-film or carbon-film resistors, SH multiwiper potentiometers with aluminium wipers. Read more at brunetti.it.  

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Sunset Guitars’ have introduced three new guitars, all made in the U.S. with multi-piece maple necks, double-cut bodies, and a heel starting at the 17th fret. The Performer has a chambered alder body They use proprietary Multi-Voice Magnetics and Coil Notch Electronics, which the company says control the resonant peak and frequency response from inside each…

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Yes and Styx will embark on a 22-city summer tour starting July 4 and concluding August 3. Yes will feature a lineup of guitarist Steve Howe, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Alan White, and lead singer Benoit David, and keyboard player Geoff Downes. Styx includes Tommy Shaw (vocals, guitars), James “JY” Young (vocals, guitars), Lawrence Gowan (vocals, keyboards), Todd Sucherman (drums) and Ricky Phillips…

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TC Electronics’ new RH750 bass head is a compact solidstate head. Features include: • Power – 750 watts. • TweeterTone™ – Front panel tweeter level control for crisp and modern bass tones. • Presets – 3 user-defined presets. • On-board chromatic tuner – Always active for instant pitch monitoring at any time. • SpectraComp™ –…

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While the stage at New York’s The Iridium club has played a part in launching the careers of countless artists, it may be best known as The Home of Les Paul, who performed there weekly for more than 12 years until his passing in 2009. “We all think that playing at the Iridium was Les’…

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George Thorogood and The Destroyers’ next album will pay tribute to their Chess Records heroes, including many of Thorogood’s legendary mentors who helped to launch his career in rock & roll. Titled 2120 South Michigan Avenue, the 13-track album will be released July 12.  ‘2120’ features Thorogood’s raw, rocking turn on classics by a who’s-who of the blues,…

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Martin & Co. has announced that six new ukulele models will be introduced at Musikmesse Frankfurt 2011. They include: 2 Uke – has a solid mahogany body, solid East Indian rosewood fingerboard and newly-designed bridge, with an applied dovetail neck to body joint, black tusq nut and black compensated tusq saddle, friction peg tuners with white…

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Joe Bochar’s JBG Supertone solidbody has a sculpted neck heel and patented Sliplock Neck Joint design comprised of an nterlocking mortise-and-tenon joint.  Its body is shaved to 1 5/8 inches thick, with contours and an average weight of approximately 7 pounds. It is available in three versions: standard, with an alder body and maple neck…

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