As I had mentioned in my last blog, our band was fortunate enough to perform and participate in the 32nd Blues Music Awards in Memphis last month. It was a two fold event of a lifetime, as my wife’s

Introduction: September 2010: During an interview with Barry Cleveland for Guitar Player magazine, he asked me where my music comes from.

         Hey pickers. Just got back from a three week tour with the Steve Miller Band with Greg Allman opening. I gotta tell ya, the bar was set high on this Spring outing. There’s just something about the

Thirty three years ago, I played bass in a Gainesville, Florida southern rock band. We were playing at a roadhouse that featured an occasionally dangerous clientele, and, between sets, I found myself talking to a young man who told me

Paul Simon performed at the historic Fillmore last Wednesday.

    For many years I used a volume pedal. In the '70s and '80s it was a popular effect, and I relied on it for live playing and in the studio.  Around 1985 I began to use a Fender Stratocaster