Joe Bonamassa: Can't Stop the Music

Nov 8 2012 12:00AM
“I GOT THE BLUES BUG EARLY on,” says Joe Bonamassa, whose life changed when he heard John May- all’s Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clap- ton as a kid. More...

Carolyn Wonderland

Jun 18 2012 12:00AM
When Carolyn Wonderland took the stage at Yoshi’s in Oakland, California, the crowd didn’t know exactly what to make of her at first. More...

Hendrix at 70

May 16 2012 12:00AM
He changed everything. What don’t we owe Jimi Hendrix for his monumental rebooting of guitar - culture “standards” of tone, technique, gear, signal processing, rhythm playing, soloing, stage presence, chord voicings, charisma, More...

Rick Derringer, Rock and Roll, Hoochie Q&A

Dec 13 2012 12:00AM
The Rock ‘n’ Blues Fest promoted by Westchester Media’s WM Concerts and featuring Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, Leslie West, and Kim Simmonds invaded the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY, on August More...

Four New Electric Players of Note

Nov 8 2012 12:00AM
READER RESPONSE TO “FOUR CORNERS OF THE NEW ACOUSTIC Universe” in the June 2012 issue of GP was so positive that we decided to follow up with a similar piece showcasing four young electric guitarists that you may not be familiar More...

12 Rhythm Guitar Greats

Mar 22 2012 12:00AM
I’m a firm believer in the huge importance of rhythm guitar. More...

"Smokin'" Joe Robinson Goes Electric

Feb 14 2012 12:00AM
WHEN 16 YEAR-OLD “SMOKIN’” JOE Robinson burned through a Chet-inflected medley of “Day Tripper” and “Lady Madonna” at the introductory round of the 2008 Australia’s Got Talent competition, the entire house—including the More...

Phil Brown's Imaginary World

Feb 14 2012 12:00AM
Shortly after Los Alamos National laboratory director Norris Bradbury helped create the atomic bomb, his music teacher wife unleashed another explosive force upon the world: Phil Brown. More...

Ball & Chain, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi's Blues Union

Feb 7 2012 12:00AM
“We’ve got a lot of skin in this game,” says Derek Trucks about going all in with his wife Susan Tedeschi to form the Tedeschi Trucks Band. More...

Ronnie Montrose

Feb 6 2012 12:00AM
If you had a gang of friends who were crazy into guitars in 1973, you could be absolutely certain of one thing: that every single one of them was playing the grooves out of the first Montrose album. Ronnie Montrose’s mammoth More...

Warren Haynes Is a Man In Motion

Oct 24 2011 12:00AM
“Before I’d ever heard of Cream or Jimi Hendrix, I heard soul music,” exclaims Warren Haynes, whose new album, Man in Motion [Concord] is a paean of sorts to his first musical inspirations. More...

It's Strictly Whatever with Harry Manx and Kevin Breit

Oct 24 2011 12:00AM
“Strictly Whatever [Stony Plain] is the most accessible CD that we’ve done so far,” says Harry Manx of his third outing with fellow Canadian guitarist and vocalist Kevin Breit. More...

Johnny Hiland Is All Fired Up

Oct 4 2011 12:45PM
If everyone in Nashville knows the name of a guitarist, that’s really saying something. In a town where every fry cook is seemingly the best picker you’ve ever heard, it takes a lot to get noticed. But that’s what happened to More...

Roy Rogers

Sep 19 2011 12:00AM
“I’VE COLLABORATED WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE AND I LIKE working that way,” says guitarist and slide-man extraordinaire Roy Rogers. More...

Paul Pigat

Sep 16 2011 12:00AM
“I’LL OFTEN WRITE A SONG THAT I THINK IS GOING to be for one project, and then it turns out that it works better for something else,” says Canadian guitarist Paul Pigat in reference to his two very different albums, More...

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