Bat’s Brew: Trouble – Album Review
Somewhere in Lake Providence Louisiana, in an outbuilding of the Panola Pepper Corporation®, a literal…
Album Review: “The Hawthornes”
The arrival of The Hawthornes’ latest album “The Hawthornes” in my music collection has been…
Stairway To Heaven – A Personal History Pt2
If you play guitar you’ve tried to play Stairway to Heaven – it’s undeniable. It…
Stairway to Heaven – a Personal History, Pt 1.
In 1975, when I was six years old, a nice young lady came to our…
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One Hot Minute: Revisiting An Amazing Album As A Singularity
In 1995 the Red Hot Chili Peppers released One Hot Minute – a follow-up to…
The Unauthorized and Mostly Untrue History of the Gibson Guitar Company
Chapter 7, pages 121-123… After the terrible events of the previous November, a nearly broken…
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Arturia 25 Key Minilab Arturia make attractive, robust, and well conceived products for the musician…
Recording “This Life”: The Theme From Sons of Anarchy
This article describes the events leading up to my decision to record a cover version…
Home Audio Recording: A Personal Odyssey Part 2
The Recap Over 20 years after I had last picked up an instrument to record…