My Roots

For a band to last forty-five years, it has to be nurtured from the inside. Henry Paul, for just about the last half-century, has been that guiding hand for The Outlaws, a group he helped form in 1972. A major part of the southern rock explosion following the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Marshall […]

Quinn Sullivan has been hailed as the new savior of blues guitar since he was probably eight years old. That’s when the legendary Buddy Guy put the young boy on his stage for the first time and let him roar. Even before that, he had appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, calm and completely at […]

Guitar genius Steve Hackett has been on a quest. After a lifetime of traveling the world and learning about new cultures, he has seen the changes that have befallen our nations. Today more than ever, he finds the distress amongst the people unsettling and sad. So much so, it has infiltrated into his new music. […]

Troy Andrews (Trombone Shorty) may be the focal point when he takes the stage with his band Orleans Avenue but when he turns it over to his guitar player Pete Murano to do a solo, the electrical current in the room goes way up. “As a guitar player he can do it all,” bandmate Joey […]

Life is a journey full of highs and lows and how we react to them is what makes it truly our own. For Jake Clemons, he chose a piece of his journey and set it to a musical rhapsody that he has titled Fear & Love. Releasing later this week on January,13th, the saxophone player […]

For British-born guitar player Chris Green, he loves living in the South – especially at this time of the year. When he first moved to America he lived in Chicago. “For five years I dealt with four or five foot snowdrifts outside my door, digging out my car, digging out the garage and all of […]

For the band Extreme, they have always been about making rock & roll multidimensional, never sticking to the same formula for every song. To them, rock & roll is a blank canvas and there are a million colors just waiting to be splashed upon it. So when a bare bones harmonic ballad leapt to the […]

Lee Fields is living proof that doing what you love does not have an age limit. “I feel that every human being’s purpose is to do what their inner voice says to do,” Fields (65) said in a press release earlier this month. “And my inner voice, my driving force, wants me to put out […]

One of the things British singer-songwriter David Gray loves most about the legendary Nina Simone is, “The way she weaves magic into things.” It is a feat many attempt yet so few attain, and that is not lost on Gray, who released a Best Of album in October. Gray, who gained attention in 2000 following […]

When you’re young and you feel like you don’t belong, life can look very different from the football player on one side of you or the gamer on the other side. So you dream more than most and that bright shining talent that might have been hidden away for years is unleashed to it’s glorious […]

You know his name, you know his music, you know of his reputation. So when it was announced that Rick Wakeman, the legendary keyboard player for Yes, was reuniting with his former bandmates, singer Jon Anderson and guitarist Trevor Rabin, to form ARW and tour, it was like the mothership had breached the mountains in […]

Andy Timmons has built his reputation into a well-respected cerebral guitar instrumentalist. He’s been on the G4 ticket with Joe Satriani and Paul Gilbert, and toured with former Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth; all three men known for their technical performances. You’ve got to be pretty darn good to hang with those guys onstage and […]

When you go see Gary Clark Jr, the first person you notice is the guitar player himself. But the second musician that catches your attention is drummer Johnny Radelat. He hits hard, he keeps a strict rhythm and he is the tracks on which Clark’s train keeps rolling. But there is not a lot of […]

 Julian Lennon may have been born into a house of music but his branches of interest spread much further out. In fact, his passions for photography and philanthropy are so deep in his soul that they are what fuel his fires today. So much so, that when creativity is sparking he charges full-speed ahead. “Sometimes […]

The fans have been waiting for this. They’ve been waiting for Myles Kennedy to finish touring with Slash and for Mark Tremonti to turn his attention away from his solo band. They have been waiting for Alter Bridge. On October 7th, the band – also featuring drummer Scott Phillips and bass player Brian Marshall – […]

Get ready everybody – the rockabilly hellraiser is back in town! Guitar player Jesse Dayton is releasing his latest record, The Revealer, this week and it’s a honky-tonking jitterbug of energy, fun times and southern witticisms. Not one to have his finger in only one home-cooked pie, Dayton plays most of the instruments himself, infusing […]

You can take the name away from the man but you can’t take the music out of the man. Out of the ashes of a court battle over who IS Queensryche, Geoff Tate is now Operation: Mindcrime, a band that continues his tradition of metal music with fiery textures, featuring protagonists who grapple with soul-wrenching […]

It may have been raining in Austin, Texas, on the afternoon I call up Elijah Ford but it wasn’t putting a damper on his mood. Next month he will not only release his third solo recording, aptly titled As You Were, but he will be heading to France to play some shows with the ATX6, […]

With all the chaos that can inundate itself into the music of My Morning Jacket, guitarist Carl Broemel has found tranquility and idyllic harmony in his solo music. His latest endeavor, 4th Of July, out this week, is like lounging on a passing cloud, rays of sun on your face and thoughts about life and […]

Black Stone Cherry did something earlier this year that every band wishes could happen to them: put out a new album that is better than all the others they’ve done in the past. Every band strives for that goal, to put out material that keeps getting better with each record they produce. With Kentucky, BSC […]