Bex Marshall

Mar 13 2013 3:28PM
Devonshire-born Bex Marshall fell into a family that was one part “landed gentry” and one part Irish Romany, but it seems the gypsy lifestyle won the battle for her soul. More...

Glenn Jones

Feb 13 2012 12:00AM
Although Glenn Jones first became attracted to the guitar after hearing Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Bold as Love in 1967, his own playing owes more to John Fahey’s American Primitive school of fingerstyle guitar playing, which also 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...

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...

The Stripminers

Mar 5 2013 12:00AM
Our songs are all totally different. More...

Bill Walker and Erdem Helvacioglu

Jan 28 2013 12:00AM
Think lap-steel guitar, and cinematic ambient music likely doesn’t come to mind. 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...

Doc Watson (1923-2012) A Personal Tribute

Nov 8 2012 12:00AM
MY FIRST TASTE OF DOC WATSON’S genius came from Country Music and Bluegrass at Newport: 1963—a compilation of live performances culled from the Newport Folk Festival. More...

Phil Keaggy

Nov 8 2012 12:00AM
“THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I AM ABLE TO FREE MYSELF from concerns about technique, and suddenly my spirit soars and the music just flows through my hands spontaneously,” enthuses Phil Keaggy. More...

Staffan Johansson on Minimalism

Jul 6 2012 12:00AM
It kind of sounds like atmospheric rockabilly, but that doesn’t account for the strains of tango, 1920’s jazz, and “Weimar Republic cabaret” that Carver Combo bandleader Peter Murphy (not the Bauhaus lead singer) cites as his More...

Albert Lee and John Jorgenson

Feb 13 2012 12:00AM
A show featuring either John Jorgenson or Albert Lee tearing through a country tune is enough to make a guitar lover’s heart flutter More...

Papa Mali on Tracking and Tricking Out Time- Honored Tones

Jul 7 2011 12:00AM
PAPA MALI USED ECHOES AND REVERBS to otherworldly effect on his two swamp-blues solo CDs. More...

Anders Osborne on Using Multiple Amps

Jul 7 2011 12:00AM
ALTHOUGH HE’S BEST KNOWN AS the unofficial poet laureate of Louisiana’s fertile roots music scene, Anders Osborne is also a wicked slide player and a serious tone junkie. More...

Black Crowe and North Mississippi Allstar Luther Dickinson

May 1 2011 1:00AM
AFTER THREE YEARS OF PLAYING RICH ROBINSON’S textural foil and lead guitar moneymaker in the Black Crowes, Luther Dickinson has raised his guitar game to a LeBron-like level. More...

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