When it comes to doing July Fourth right, you can’t go wrong by choosing an American Original. And that is exactly what Taos is delivering by inviting Junior Brown to play at its Fourth of July ...
Guitars are everywhere. If you don’t play one, then chances are you’ve at least heard a one – on the radio, on the street corner, in a park on a summer afternoon, at your cousin’s wedding, on open mic ...
How is it that a tiny guitar amp with origins that date back 76 years is still considered a monster tone machine today? It’s because Fender got so much right with the humble Champ combo from the start ...
Incendiary sounds shooting like fireworks off the strings of an electric guitar have defined pop music around the world for 70 years. Credit Adolph Rickenbacker (1887-1976) for this world-wide wonder ...
KAILUA — Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning his ...
Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...
Tommy was born in New South Wales, Australia. He received his first guitar in 1959 (at age four) and was taught by his mother to accompany her, playing lap steel guitar. By age six, he was a working ...
WHO: Pedal steel guitar player Noah Faulkner. WHAT: This teenager inserts a country twang into eighties (and beyond) covers for his dog, Kara, and nearly 40,000 Instagram followers. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: ...
THIS week we chat with prolific multi-instrumentalist and dobro master Peter Fidler. What initially motivated you to become a musician? I bought a guitar with birthday money, age five. It was a ...