USA Today recently featured a story about Nashville-based guitar manufacturer Novo Guitars and how they are surviving amid the pandemic: I'm a fan of what Novo is doing, and I'm glad to hear that they've been able to figure out how to navigate COVID-19 without having to furlough anyone. An interesting tidbit from the interview is that founder Dennis Fano isn't really … [Read more...]
Vinyl Sales Outpace CDs in 2020
Dalvin Brown, reporting for USA Today: Americans seem to be listening to more vinyl records amid the pandemic. In fact, vinyl outsold CDs for the first time since the 1980s, according to a recently released mid-year report from the Recording Industry Association of America. The report underscoring the state of the U.S. music industry captured how people's music listening … [Read more...]
Ampire: The Sound of Music
Ampire looks like it could be an interesting movie: Ampire is a feature length film which takes a fun peek into the evolution of ‘Sound’: the Amp and the ever changing voice it has given the guitar. Ampire is loaded with laughs, great behind the scenes stories, little known facts and even a few secrets. All new, never before seen interviews with artists and band members of … [Read more...]
Confessions of a Guitar Hoarder
Steve Housewright, a self-professed guitar hoarder, writing for minimalism.life: Guitar hoarding is still around. Social media is filled with people who share their latest instrument purchases. It’s an illness and they lovingly know it! People post photos of guitar collections that fill entire rooms. Once the guitar-collecting compulsion takes hold, you seldom can give it … [Read more...]
5 Boxes Essential Licks (2nd Edition) – Texas Blues Alley
My friend Anthony, owner of Texas Blues Alley, has gone through and fully updated his popular 5 Boxes Essential Licks course: Several months ago I decided it was time to use everything I've learned and improved over the past eleven years, and breath new life into this popular, but very old course. I shot new lick demonstrations, updated all the tablature, and created 12 new … [Read more...]