Guitar maker brings music to life
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- Guitar maker brings music to life
- Be my guide: Janis Ian surfaces at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe
- The Big Gigs: ur critics’ music picks
- Guitar legend Thompson takes requests
Guitar maker brings music to life
Toronto Star
"As bizarre as it sounds now he didn’t want to hire a woman in 1974 because he was concerned it would distract the other guys. "Manzer struck out on her own in 1978. She kept the first guitar she made. She thinks the second was the one that went to master musician Santana. It’s hard to tell from the sketchy handwritten records she kept. "I didn’t want to number (the guitars)" she explains. "I felt I was trapping them or something.
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Be my guide: Janis Ian surfaces at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe
Los Angeles Times
Bluebird was packed with more than a hundred mostly older patrons. In any other densely populated area you wouldn’t be able to hear yourself think. But here it was quiet except for the music.
The Big Gigs: ur critics’ music picks
Minneapolis Star Tribune
)Back Door Slam is a Southern-styled boogie-rock band but it happens to be led by a 22-year-old guitar-wiz from England named Davey Knowles. He doesn’t offer much originality but has enough oomph to land Peter Frampton as producer of his new CD and to earn recent opening gigs with Jeff Beck and Chickenfoot. Howling local rockers Cocaine open.
Guitar legend Thompson takes requests
Sacramento Bee
That’s the way people deal with murder and incest and all that – that’s the way that feelings get expressed. That’s how people deal with it. “This is one of the functions of music. “ne of Thompson’s most popular recordings in America is the 1982 release “Shoot ut the Lights” with his then-wife Linda. His 1991 album “Rumor and Sigh” was Grammy-nominated. His most recent recording released in 2007 is “Sweet Warrior. “In Sacramento he will perform a solo concert Tuesday that he said will include “songs that are current something maybe the audience hasn’t heard before and some that go back to the ’60s.
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