Here`s Furry Lewis playing when I lay my burden Down. I previously wrote about unusual guitar practices and sometimes you`ve gotta have an unusual name just to back yourself up….Furry Lewis, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Blind Lemon, Pink Anderson & Little Pink, Keb` Mo, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, Black Spider Dumpling, Hound Dog Taylor, Pine Top Smith, […]
Today I`m going to stretch the art of guitar metaphor a little further and give everyone out there an insight into some visually shredded guitar art that combines fast colour kinetics, motion and explosive emotional intent. I`ll be posting more soon. Artist Michael Babyak hails from the lone star state via the way of New […]
Hair metal poodles and spandex clad rockers beware..! There are ways to burn on the guitar that far surpass the egocentric simplicity and slavery to technique of that whole guitar school, speed focused, sweep picking, notes for notes sake playing that occurs in a vacuum devoid of taste, subtlety and emotion. A while back I posted […]
We had a bit of a Rock Star party last night to celebrate the incredible man that Ben Edwards is and the beautiful Sade too!It was great fun. Here are the incriminating pictures. If you want to see more of Ben Edwards head over to the sitting room. Thanks to everyone because it was a fantastic […]
If you’ve been following the progress and adventures of my recordings on the Elijah Few blog then you`ll know that thus far I’ ve had to do battle with some extremely unversatile firewood. Yes, I`m talking about acoustic guitars and I`m going to try and outline what you should be looking for in your search […]