Fender has announced a promotion to win tickets to Eric Clapton’s sold out Crossroads festival on June 26. The grand-prize winner will receive a pair of tickets and a Fender T-Mobile myTouch 3G Limited Edition phone. A runner-up will win a pair of tickets to the festival. All you have to do to enter is fill out the form on the contest website.

I’m happy to announce another contest here on Guitar Lifestyle! I have several copies of Steve Morse’s latest CD Out Standing in Their Field to give away.

In my opinion, this is one of Morse’s best albums in a long time. Like Morse’s previous albums, he melds various styles together to create an eclectic album of great guitar playing, as well as great bass playing by Dave LaRue and great drumming by Van Romaine.

How To Enter

There are two ways to win a CD. The first way to win is to send me an e-mail from the contact page using the subject “Morse Contest”. I’ll randomly select a winner from the e-mail entries.

The second way to win is by tweeting about this contest on Twitter, with a mention of my Twitter name: @guitarlifestyle. I’ll randomly select a winner from the Twitter entries. Although you are not limited to using the following text, here’s an example tweet you can use to enter this contest:

Win a free copy of Steve Morse’s latest CD Out Standing in Their Field from @guitarlifestyle: http://bit.ly/6qW9Wb

The contest will end on January 24, 2010. I’ll select and notify the winner on January 25, 2010.

Congratulations to Todd L. from New York for winning the Fret12 prize pack contest. He has won copies of Mark Tremonti’s and Leslie West’s instructional DVDs, produced by Fret12.

Thanks to all who participated in this contest. I’ll be announcing a new contest soon, so stay tuned!

This is just a reminder that there are still a few more days to enter the Jeff Beck Performing This Week…Live at Ronnie Scott’s Blu-Ray contest. I’ll accept contest entries through Sunday, May 17, and I’ll announce the winner on Monday, May 18. Good luck!

I’m excited to announce that I have three (3) copies of the Blu-Ray version of Jeff Beck’s recently released video Performing This Week…Live at Ronnie Scott’s to give away!

To Enter The Contest:

Send me your e-mail address by filling out the contact form using the subject “Jeff Beck”, and indicate in the message that you want to be entered into the contest.* That’s all you have to do! I’ll randomly select the winners and notify them via e-mail. All entries must be received by May 17, 2009. I’ll pick and notify the winners on May 18, 2009. Unfortunately, with apologies to my International friends, the contest is limited to only readers in the United States.

* NOTE: Your e-mail address will be used only to notify you if you are the winner. I will not use your e-mail address for any other purpose.

Information About Performing This Week…Live at Ronnie Scott’s:

Performing This Week…Live at Ronnie Scott’s is a compilation of a series of concerts that Beck performed in 2007 with his band at Ronnie Scott’s club in London. Beck’s band for these shows included Tal Wilkenfeld on bass, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, and Jason Rebello on piano. Beck invited several guests to perform with his band, including Eric Clapton, Imogene Heap, and Joss Stone. The track list for the Blu-Ray is:

1. Beck’s Bolero
2. Eternity’s Breath
3. Stratus
4. Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
5. Behind The Veil
6. You Never Know
7. Nadia
8. Blast From The East
9. Led Boots
10. Angel (Footsteps)
11. People Get Ready – with JOSS STONE
12. Scatterbrain
13. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / Brush With The Blues
14. Space Boogie
15. Blanket – with IMOGEN HEAP
16. Big Block
17. A Day In The Life
18. Little Brown Bird – with ERIC CLAPTON
19. You Need Love – with ERIC CLAPTON
20. Rollin’ And Tumblin’ – with IMOGEN HEAP
21. Where Were You

Bonus Material:
Jeff Beck Interview: rare in depth interview talking about Ronnie Scott’s, his band, the setlist and his guest performers. Interviews with the band members.

Blu-ray Exclusive Material: 7 Track rockabilly set with the Big Town Playboys exclusively available on the Blu-ray version:
1. Race With The Devil
2. Crazy Legs
3. Train Kept A Rollin’
4. My Baby Left Me
5. Matchbox
6. Baby Blue
7. Honky Tonk.

This is a great collection of songs by Beck and his group. Beck’s playing is really inspired, and his band provides a solid foundation for his guitar pyrotechnics. They play pretty much all of Beck’s hits, as well as several covers. Particularly noteworthy is Beck’s cover of the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life,” which is probably my favorite track from the video.