2025 April Issue on Spotify
TThis month, we feature John Sykes, Mike Campbell, Joe Satriani, Dan Hawkins, Reverend Peyton, Popa Chubby, Savoy Brown, B.B. King, Jimmy Vivino, Alan Gogoll,...
Check This Action: Duane Eddy, My Hero
On December 3, 1983, I approached Eric Clapton backstage at the star-stuffed Action into Research for Multiple Sclerosis (ARMS) concert in San Francisco. The...
Arlen Roth
Arlen Roth is known as a professor of the instrument, with his Hot Licks instructional video series serving as the blueprint for guitar education...
Paul Benjaman
Paul Benjaman is a bad, bad guitar man. The Tulsa twanger serves up a mean, funky stew on My Bad Side Wants a Good...
Scott Sharrard
It’s ain’t easy to fill the shoes of guitar legends like Lowell George and Paul Barrere, but that’s Scott Sharrard’s mission with Little Feat....
Ross Valory
After 50-plus years as a professional musician, bassist Ross Valory has released his first solo album, All of the Above. The San Francisco native...
Jimmy James
Retro ambassador of funk Jimmy James is back with a new attitude. With the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio in his rearview, Parlor Greens is...
Molly Miller
The Molly Miller Trio fits into that hip niche of Americana jazz, but also touches on surf/instro, spaghetti western, blues, and film-soundtrack textures. Like...
George Ducas and Pete Anderson
On two major-label albums in the ’90s, Nashville traditionalist George Ducas projected a honky-tonk sound with help from producer (and ace guitarist) Richard Bennett....
Beatles’ Framus Hootenanny Rediscovered in England
In certain circles (eh hem...), the Beatles’ array of instruments is as celebrated as their music, the lore originating with The Cavern and weaving...