21 Pageants of Fuzzy Songcraft

Sep 20,2011
FUZZ IS ONE WICKEDLY ABRASIVE AND DELIGHTFULLY peculiar effect. Although it can require a touch of daring to abandon the organic colors of overdrive and distortion and embrace buzz and spit, players have used fuzz to power More...

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...

Paul Pigat

Sep 16,2011
“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...

GP Flashback: Jennifer Batten, July 1989

Sep 16,2011
“Women are the weaker sex. A woman’s place is in the home. Women can’t be president because they’re too emotional. It’s a man’s world. I remember hearing phrases like these when I was growing up,” recalls Jennifer Batten. “But More...

GP Flashback: Kaki King, June 2003

Sep 16,2011
“I guess my dad was hipper than most,” says Kaki King. “Instead of sending me off to piano lessons with all the other kids, he forced me to play guitar—and I hated it. I took a few lessons and quit. But my dad always made sure More...

Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes

Sep 15,2011
Animals as Leaders on stage (left to right)— Javier Reyes, Navene Koperweis, and Tosin Abasi.WITH A TIDY, GREEN LAWN EXTENDING TO THE SIDEWALK AND pleasant looking floral drapes hanging inside the living room window, More...

Johnny Hiland Is All Fired Up

Oct 4,2011
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...

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...

Warren Haynes Is a Man In Motion

Oct 24,2011
“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. “I was a singer before I ever More...

Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy

Oct 21,2011
“The more we toured and the more Myles played guitar onstage, we began to realize how good of a guitarist he actually is,” says Alter Bridge guitarist and mastermind Mark Tremonti about the band’s lead singer and co-guitarist More...

Guthrie Govan Takes the Reins in Prog Rock's Rowdy New Democracy

Jul 14,2011
“Guthrie Govan gives shred a good name,” says Paul Gilbert. “It’s absolutely heartwarming to hear someone play super fast and have musical depth to match. What a breath of fresh air.” Mr. Gilbert, however, is not the More...

Normalizer2 Project Audio Samples

Aug 25,2011
Here are the audio examples from my September 2011 GP story The Normalizer2 Project: 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...

Robin Trower

Aug 17,2011
“I LOVE THE GUITAR AS MUCH NOW AS WHEN I BEGAN playing,” exclaims the legendary Robin Trower. “It’s still a great thrill to play. If I can get a bit of electricity from an idea or a solo, that’s what it’s about for me. That More...

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