Noah Zacharin: Seriously Agile Fingerstyle
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kkm8E8MG60?si=G3xDD5vfSz706xom]
“Lester Brown” Live From The Big Lonely
From his home in a forest between Ottawa and Toronto, singer/songwriter/fingerpicker Noah Zacharin entertains us with an...
Don’t Call it Fusion: Julien Kasper’s “Upon a Green Hill”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWXoSubBtw?si=iF_Nr24do50xbrws]
Beck (et al) Connection!
The music made by Julien Kasper is connected to Miles, Beck, Hendrix, Mahavishnu, and Scofield, but brings its own sound....
Adam Levy’s Wistful Elegance
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiN9DjqrNE8?si=ahTUvP4Hdug1VNFc]
Vintage ES-335 on “And They All Sang”
Famous for supplying charismatic guitar parts while backing Nora Jones and Tracy Chapman, Adam Levy’s latest solo...
Corb Lund’s (Acoustic) Roots Rock!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj_63xAC-8o?si=Vb_zmgWrO0xpSM88]
Low-key in the living room
Corb Lund rescued his ’80s Kramer Ferrington from a hair ballad so he could use it to play this...
The Brothers Comatose Cover “Stickshifts and Safetybelts”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N--0ZJge2-Y?si=QDf3FqqykNbcX14o]
“Hardly Strictly Bluegrass” From San Francisco
Here’s a dose of bluegrass flavor courtesy of The Brothers Comatose, playing a cover of Cake’s “Stickshifts &...
Muireann Bradley, Old Soul
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve66JhhLGKY?si=2-PimPR4vW8cdviT]
Vintage Blues, Vintage L-50
Direct from Ireland, 17-year-old Muireann Bradley indulges us (and tugs at our Led Zep heartstrings) with a rendition of Memphis...
Lords of Atlantis: Cliché-Free Surf
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g2seyr8GPw?si=q1441mCKrhdXPxk7]
Ivan Pongracic
Lords of Atlantis includes members from a handful of high-profile surf bands, and its debut album is a collection of catchy...
Steve Howell Fingerpicks “Stocking Feet Blues”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHAtfLhhDy4?si=BHmI2PNzi3f4wUFC]
Solo acoustic homage to rural-blues great
Steve Howell is a veteran of blues, rock, and jazz. Here, he fingerpicks a terrific rendition of Blind...
Jeff Plankenhorn’s “Alone At Sea”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVlAf9B42Fc?si=pzGFjKMZDADWrsdJ]
Tasty slide on a square-neck Oahu
Singer/songwriter Jeff Plankenhorn’s music is a rootsy mix that embraces blues and pop while dodging categorization. Here, he...
Andrew Synowiec’s Ebullient Tonefest
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDpj8YyV7Sg?si=Swa8R5oLZYubiFdX]
Uplifting Instrumental Rock!
Check out Andrew Synowiec and his Heritage Custom Core H-150 P90 ripping through a chunk of “Lead Foot,” a track from...