Beauty, brass, a beat and more at concerts
Payson Roundup
Supported by bass, guitar, keyboards and drums, you'll see and hear the soundtrack of your life during this multi-media “rockumentary”.

Two-for-one deal at Music on the Grill
Coquitlam Now
He has more than seven years of experience in teaching both private and group lessons, and is currently the assistant guitar instructor with the Sarah

Advantage To Old Hands Or Newcomers At Trucks Newest Playground?
TruckSeries.com
3 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet. "It cut my learning curve in half and should help level the playing field between the veterans and younger drivers.

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Detroit Metro Times
Cover Story
Detroit Metro Times
The Gatlin guitar lessons became part of Davis' daily routine. (Bosie Gatlin is still alive and plays frequently at a local church.

Letter to the President #555: 'And you can quote me! Pt. 3'
CNN (blog)
Then my brother showed me how to tune a guitar and read a chord chart, and another friend showed me how to convert those chords to the piano keyboard.

The Phoenix
Arcade Fire | The Suburbs
The Phoenix
The soothing lull of brittle chords, the steady sway of a tom-tom, and — WHAM! — the clouds open up to a choir of synthetic angels. You can almost feel

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Q&A: Peter Case Wig!s Us Out
Dallas Observer (blog)
If you can get your hands around those basic chords, you can make a decent piece of music. Kids like to play it because it's just not that hard to play and

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Washington Post (blog)
Album review: Best Coast, "Crazy For You"
Washington Post (blog)
you'll want to skip ahead to "Goodbye," a song that parcels out all of Best Coast's sonic hallmarks in equal measure: serrated power chords,

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Fresh of latest album release, guitarist Walter Trout visits for show at Rookies
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
It was the crème de la crème of sideman guitar gigs. ... That was hard to walk away from." He decided to start his solo work on his 38th birthday,

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Samuel James brings acoustic blues to the stage
Park Record
He is a master of fingerstyle and slide guitar techniques as well as banjo, harmonica and piano. A modern-day troubadour not yet out of his 20s,

The 'best' is yet to come for Stevie Nicks
Ventura County Star
I took a month of guitar lessons when I was 15. I play with one note. I play well enough to write, but I don't play enough to really play.

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Kansas City Star
Guitar isn't for solos at camp run by MNU professor
Kansas City Star
There's no guitar in marching band, he said, and a typical high school jazz band has only two seats for guitar. Kids may take solo lessons or teach

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SnoValley Star

The uke will set you free
San Francisco Chronicle
It looks like a guitar that someone accidentally washed at the wrong setting, and in untrained hands, sounds like a

Samuel James brings acoustic blues to the stage
Park Record
He is a master of fingerstyle and slide guitar techniques as well as banjo, harmonica and piano. A modern-day troubadour not yet out of his 20s,

Local singer finds satisfaction through teaching kids how to play music
Daily Comet
RACELAND — A simple request of a guitar lesson has turned into an all-out music camp for Tammy Trant. The 40 or so children 8 to 16 she

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String theory: All things acoustic at Echo Park's Fretted Frog guitar shop »
Los Angeles Times (blog)
And he's enlisted two local musicians/guitar experts, Aaron Robinson and Colin Warling, to collaborate with him on the store's open mic bookings, lessons

ChartAttack
Kings Of Leon Avoid Pooping Incidents At Triumphant Show
ChartAttack
Caleb switched from an electric to an acoustic guitar to play "Fans," first taking a shot of liquor and tossing his empty glass to the crowd.

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Mystery, heartbreak behind Air Supply
Daily Breeze
They asked us if we would come down and play four or five songs. It's just going to be the two of us with one acoustic guitar, so it will be a

All About Jazz
Ben Keith dies at 73; steel guitarist known for work with Neil Young
Los Angeles Times
"I came in and quietly set up my guitar — they had already started playing — and started playing," Keith recalled in a 2006 interview.
Remembering Neil Young's Collaborator Ben KeithLA Weekly (blog)
Ben Keith, Neil Young's Pedal Steel Guitarist and Collaborator, DiesAmerican Songwriter

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Kris Kristofferson, Cadogan Hall
Telegraph.co.uk
Rating: * * * * * By Neil McCormick For a singer-songwriter who can barely play guitar, struggles with the harmonica and only has a few notes in his

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Oh, That Racist Tea Party! The Haters, Hillbillies and Histrionic Doomsayers
Patch
Mark Williams, the former Tea Party Express leader who resigned last week, had already been chastised months ago when he said Muslims "worship a monkey god.

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Out and About: July 21 - Aug. 1
East Bridgewater Star
Sunday Worship with Bernie Carbo.9 am, First Baptist Church of Hanson, 214 Main St., Hanson. Former Red Sox player will talk about his addiction to drugs.