The Ovation Adamas II
What do you get when you cross a helicopter with a Martin dreadnought? Easy answer – Ovation guitars, perhaps the greatest champion of alternative...
Nils Lofgren Shines Solo – Again
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H2livyDsoQ?si=DVt9XYwbGd1RaRFq]
Star Grabs Vintage J-50 for “Ain’t the Truth Enough?
An in-demand sideman for more than 50 years, guitar wizard Nils Lofgren has worked with...
Gibson M-III Standard
Gibson’s bread and butter has long been tried-and-true designs that represent remarkable innovations – even if they date back to the 1950s. This is...
Classics: January 2023
Overhearing his 13-year-old son noodling on a beginner guitar in his bedroom one day in 1958, it occurred to Murray Mitzner that the boy...
Vox/Thomas Organ V-14 Super Beatle
After producing some of the most-iconic guitar amplifiers of the early 1960s, Vox leaned unwittingly into a failing technology – and unknowingly accelerated its...
Dan’s Guitar RX: Rock-And-Roll High School(er)
In my November ’22 column, Ceil Thompson’s class-project guitar was nearing completion – the lacquer coats were applied and, after it cured for two...
Jake Andrews’ video encore: “Eyes On The Prize”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4SZfK3Y1VE?si=T_ePfnD4_Tt0xLaq]
Austin Great Goes Full Steam for "Eyes On The Prize"
Jake Andrews’ video encore: "Eyes On The Prize"
Jake Andrews makes a VG-social-media curtain call...
Instro-Meister Eric Penna
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoUVeoOg2sM?si=qYXT_fC6xO-V-hEN]
Blues Switch-Up in Trabants
Eric Penna’s main gig is playing bass for the garage/surf band Insect Surfers, but he side-hustles playing guitar in the...
Steve Dawson and his Tricone, “Singin’ the Blues”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7iMqQdNl8M?si=tEuqCuPsngQBaxhB]
Roots Artists Expands the Genren
The wildly talented Steve Dawson uses a modern National Tricone for this take on “Singin’ the Blues,” then offers...
Brennen Leigh’s Heart-Tugging Honky-Tonk
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySFtWr-cxhI?si=-Su_rHiOhngZZlCP]
Shades of Norman Blake and Dolly Parton
A student of the “Carter Scratch” guitar technique – melody on the low strings, rhythm on the...