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

 THE SUBDOMINANT....the Suburban Broadway Sub  It’s summer 2005 and I’m living a guitarist’s dream I’m on a hydraulically lifted stage set in front of 1,000 plus people. The incandescent spotlight catches yours truly, as I rip into the decidedly Hendrix

Equal parts guitar show and live music fest, the Dallas International Guitar Festival hit its 35th season this year. The event is way different from NAMM or Germany’s Musikmesse, because unlike these high-profile music industry gatherings, the Dallas show is aimed specifically at collectors and players, as well with an

Here are six very different recordings by artists who have chosen to create music that flies under the radar of popular culture, but that I think GP readers will dig for various reasons.

 In many ways, a music convention is a music convention. You will, by and large, see the same manufacturers displaying the same gear, hear the same clinicians playing the same licks (that you won’t really hear anywhere but a trade