Guitarist James Williamson of Saratoga prepares to reunite with …
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- Musicnotes to sell Cherry Lane catalog
- Les Paul: Pop Music’s Thomas Edison
- Sam Bush anticipates arrival in Boone
- Sam Carter and co forge ahead
Guitarist James Williamson of Saratoga prepares to reunite with …
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place_ad_here(”adPosBox”); it’s harder and harder to hide” he says with a wry chuckle. “I was pretty successful at it for a lot of years anyway. “He began getting back into the guitar a couple of years ago spurred by a burgeoning interest in Hawaiian music. While shopping for a Martin acoustic at Palo Alto’s Gryphon Stringed Instruments he met See a salesman at the store. When the white-haired Williamson gave See his name for a potential order it was like a baseball fanatic suddenly realizing he’s been chatting with Sandy Koufax. See 34 reacted appropriately. “I just about melted and said ‘Wait a second — the James Williamson that played a really loud Les Paul through a Vox AC30 in the early ’70s?!’ “The two struck up a friendship and Careless Hearts bassist Brian Michael a luthier at the store was entrusted with getting the old Les Paul with the distinctive Leopard Lady decal back in playing shape.
Musicnotes to sell Cherry Lane catalog
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Under the agreement Musicnotes. com will sell downloadable digital sheet music and guitar "tabs" created by the print division of New York City-based Cherry Lane Music. Songs from the Cherry Lane catalog will be available to learn through Guitar Guru Musicnotes’ guitar teaching software. “The Cherry Lane catalog represents some of the greatest music ever written” said Kathleen Marsh CE of Musicnotes. "It contains both classics from the past and the most popular hits of the present and Musicnotes is honored to be their digital distributor.
Les Paul: Pop Music’s Thomas Edison
Popular Science
According to legend Paul created his first electrically amplified guitar when he was only a teenager by inserting a record player pick up into the back of an acoustic guitar. In either 1940 or 1941 Paul created what is generally considered to be the first solid body electric guitar. Music was never the same. Unlike the many custom guitars Paul would create for himself later in life his first electric guitar was nothing more than some pickups nailed to a wooden board. The composite was so unsightly that he nicknamed it “the log”. While other instruments before Paul’s guitar had generated sounds purely through electrical signals none of them caught on as quickly or as widely.
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Sam Bush anticipates arrival in Boone
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It’s alot more fun to play rhythm on the mandolin while you sing. TA:You have become known as “The King f Newgrass. ” Could you explain theterm “newgrass”? And how does it make you feel to have this title?SB: Well it’s basically a new way of approaching music usingwhat would be old traditional bluegrass instruments such as banjoguitar mandolin bass fiddle. Just basically going to make new soundsusing old instruments of bluegrass. In other words instead of justplaying traditional songs that have been handed down over the yearsyou write your own tunes and take your influences from many placesjazz rock ‘n’ roll reggae and folk music and country. So all of thatkind of mixed in that’s what you call newgrass but playing it withthe same drive and intensity of bluegrass music. I’m only one of many people who you know helped to start a new kindof bluegrass.
Sam Carter and co forge ahead
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In the course of her career she has opened for such artists as Bob Dylan U2 and Bryan Adams and toured with Roger McGuinn Joan Armatrading and Brian Kennedy. Acoustic guitar player John Smith performs on Tuesday 29. He supported John Martyn on what was to be his final tour and has already been described by folk giant John Renbourn as ?the future of acoustic guitar music?. ctober will begin with Arthurs. Ritchie a jazz trio with unlimited potential for invention and the unexpected. Expect a high-energy highly interactive and fresh performance on Saturday 10.
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