Dennis Jones
On About Time, Dennis Jones gets real with blues-rock that comprises one part drama, one part top-tier production, and guitar tones that melt faces....
Lee Ritenour
Lee Ritenour’s latest album, Brasil, finds the jazz icon traveling to São Paulo with co-producer Dave Grusin to immerse themselves in the nation’s rich...
Rocky Athas
Known for decades as The Texas Tornado and The Malice from Dallas, Rocky Athas is still kickin’ blues-rock ass on Livin’ My Best Life,...
Joanne Shaw Taylor
Joanne Shaw Taylor’s Heavy Soul mixes epic tales of turbulent love affairs with bodacious guitar playing. With Anton Fig on drums and producer extraordinaire...
Paul Gilbert
Formed in 1988, Mr. Big was an all-star effort made up of bassist Billy Sheehan, drummer Pat Torpey, vocalist Eric Martin, and guitarist Paul...
Pop ’N Hiss: Blue Cheer’s “Vincebus Eruptum”
Blue Cheer was the most-notorious band to emerge from San Francisco’s psychedelic scene in the late ’60s, its decibel-drenched assault steamrolling the “peace and...
Fretprints: Elvis Presley
History has it that rock and roll materialized in the wee hours of July 6, 1954, when a painfully introverted teenager suddenly grabbed his...
Bud-Electro Serenader Guitars
The Pacific Northwest was home to four obscure brands of early electric guitars – Audiovox, Hanburt, Coppock, and Serenader.
Produced by the Seattle-based Bud-Electro Manufacturing...
Jackie’s Hidden Gem
Seventy years ago, Leo Fender introduced the Stratocaster as an evolutionary step forward from his first solidbody electric guitar. Sleeker and smoother, he wanted...
Bex Marshall’s 1965 Gibson Hummingbird
Born In Plymouth, Devon, blues singer/songwriter/guitarist Bex Marshall grew up in a merry old England-style “mixed” family – her paternal great grandfather was the...