Monthly Archives: August 2013
Musicvox Space Cadet 12
Musicvox Space Cadet 12
Price: $899 (direct)
Contact: musicvox.com
As you may have read in Michael Wright’s profile of the Spaceranger guitar (September ’11), Musicvox started producing...
Dokken
Dokken is still going strong with their 11th studio album Broken Bones. With vocalist Don Dokken as producer, it’s an album that is shameless...
Havens’ Ashes to be Scattered at Woodstock
On Sunday, August 18, the ashes of Richie Havens will be scattered across the field where the Woodstock Festival was staged in 1969.
Today, it...
Quilter Intros Aviator Deluxe
Quilter Amplifiers’ Aviator Deluxe has 100 watts of output per channel and weighs nine pounds. Channel 1 (clean) has controls for Master volume and...
Electra Guitars Adds to Phoenix Series
Electra Guitars has expanded its Phoenix Series with two guitars, the H and S, based on the X110. The Phoenix H has been updated...
Rick Berlin and the Nickel and Dime Band
It’s not glam rock, although “(I’m A) Slut” sparkles with a certain Bowie/ Roxy Music sexual ambiguity. It’s not Captain Beefheart’s industrial-strength experimental rock,...
The DGN Custom Guitars Paragon Standard
DGN custom guitars paragon standard
Price: $3,000 (base)
Contact: DGNcustomguitars.com.
For the past few years, luthier Dan Neafsey has been making a name for himself from his small...
Michael Tobias Design (MTD) Releases Kingston Rubicon
Michael Tobias Design’s Kingston Rubicon has a carved alder body with flamed maple top, MTD’s asymmetrical one-piece maple neck, compound fingerboard radius, and the...
St. Blues Bluesmaster, Blindsider, and Delta Blues Box
Saint Blues Bluesmaster/Blindsider
Price: $2,399 (Bluesmaster); $2,550 (Blindsider)
Info: saintblues.com
St. Blues’ history stretches back to the days when its founders customized guitars for the likes of...
Jamey Johnson
Like earlier country outlaws, Jamey Johnson forges his own paths while never forgetting his forebears. One is singer-composer Hank Cochran, who died in 2010....