Roy Rogers

Sep 19,2011
“I’VE COLLABORATED WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE AND I LIKE working that way,” says guitarist and slide-man extraordinaire Roy Rogers. “It’s a new rush every time.” The result of Rogers’ latest musical merging is Translucent Blues More...

It's Strictly Whatever with Harry Manx and Kevin Breit

Oct 24,2011
“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. “Kevin’s songs are catchy and easy to sing More...

Boldly Going Nowhere with Justin Derrico

Oct 24,2011
There was a time when if you wanted to be a professional guitarist, your choices were fairly clear: You could be a session player, toiling behind the scenes and leaving the spotlight to others; you could be a road dog, More...

Satch on Hendrix

Mar 10,2011
“Jimi Hendrix was entirely unique,” says Joe Satriani. “For one thing, he sounded like the most brilliant guitar player who never practiced a day in his life. I just never heard anything in any of his performances that ever More...

The Doobie Brothers

Jul 7,2011
SINCE THEIR LATE-’60S FORMATION in San Jose, California, the Doobie Brothers have seen a staggering string of hits, a huge number of bandmembers, and a phoenixlike ability to endure. They are best known, from a sonic More...

Papa Mali on Tracking and Tricking Out Time- Honored Tones

Jul 7,2011
PAPA MALI USED ECHOES AND REVERBS to otherworldly effect on his two swamp-blues solo CDs. Now he’s fronting the jam supergroup 7 Walkers—featuring members of the Grateful Dead and the Meters—and he produced More...

Skip Pitts

Jul 7,2011
DROP THE NAME SKIP PITTS INTO A conversation and you might get blank looks— but mention “Shaft” and the room lights up. Everyone remembers fondly the wacka wacka of the tune’s wah pedal played More...

Kim Thayil

Jul 7,2011
“ALL ROCK GUITAR PLAYERS DESIRE ATTENTION,” admits Kim Thayil. “But I don’t need it all the time.” The godfather of grunge guitar proved that point by walking away from Soundgarden at the More...

Andy Johns on Miking

Jul 7,2011
“OVER THE YEARS,” SAYS JOHNS, “I’ve learned simple ways of recording guitars and complicated ways. My normal setup for years and years was two Shure SM57s on, say, the top right speaker— one More...

Liona Boyd

Jan 1,2011
“No one could explain why all of my technique on the guitar was slipping away from me,” says classical guitar legend Liona Boyd. “My right hand felt so different, I would end up crying every time I picked up the guitar—and More...

Tony Joe White

Jan 1,2011
In America Tony Joe White is known largely for his 1969 hit “Polk Salad Annie.” Some may be familiar with “Rainy Night in Georgia,” as performed by Brook Benton and a host of others, but few are aware that White wrote it. In More...

Luke Doucet

Feb 1,2011
BY KEN EISNERSome people were meant to play certain guitars. Whenever and wherever Luke Doucet hits the stage, he wrestles every last ounce of Neil Young-battles-Brian Setzer twang out of his gleaming cream-and-gold companion. More...

Laurence Juber

Feb 1,2011
‘‘Ithink my major criteria for the process is, ‘Am I bored yet? Is this compelling?’” That’s how fingerstyle and DADGAD master Laurence Juber describes how he arrives at an arrangement. If his latest record, LJ Plays the Beatles More...

Name the Guitar Hero Nuggets From The Guitar Player Archives

Dec 1,2010
WHEN YOU PUT TOGETHER A SONG, DOES it just come to you, or is it a process where you sit down with your guitar? The music I might hear, I can’t get on the guitar. It’s a thing of just laying around daydreaming or More...

Nashville Session Roundtable

Aug 17,2011
AS A KID GROWING UP IN CALIFORNIA AND LEARNING how to play guitar to punk-rock records, my impression of Nashville at the time was of cowboy hats and twangy guitars. However, once I moved here and started doing sessions and More...

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