My Roots

When Motley Crue made the announcement early this year that they were going to cease being a band following a big farewell tour, some fans actually cheered because it meant that bass player Nikki Sixx would have more time to devote to Sixx:AM, the band he put together with vocalist James Michael and guitar player […]

For a band to hang around long enough to produce seventeen studio albums, plus live records and various compilations, they have to have something that music listeners never get tired of hearing. For Judas Priest, they have been thrilling audiences with eardrum splitting, twin-guitar screaming, studded-out leather rocking for four decades. From 1974’s Rocka Rolla […]

Whether you are a country music fan or not, you have to admit that Carlene Carter is a pistol with vocal cords. The daughter of June Carter and Carl Smith, and the step-daughter of Johnny Cash, all three legends in country music, Carlene has always been the spunky gal with a love for sprinkling her […]

If you go about an hour and a half south of Memphis, you will happen upon a town called Clarksdale, Mississippi. There is a museum there, the Delta Blues Museum, and for anyone who has loved the blues, this is one of the most popular stopping places on their journey down what is known as […]

Although harmonica player Kim Wilson is very excited about his new album with Mud Morganfield, a tribute to Mud’s father Muddy Waters called For Pops, we have started talking about Howlin’ Wolf with a joyful glee. “Sam Phillips loved Howlin’ Wolf,” Wilson stated. “The Sun stuff is incredible with the Wolf. I’ve got all of […]

When Kenny Wayne Shepherd first made a name for himself as a young buck blues-rock guitar player, he was known as the kid, the embodiment of the legacy Stevie Ray Vaughan had left behind. Although Shepherd grew up quickly in the spotlight, he was always seen as the kid. Now at 37, Shepherd has long […]

If you take four musicians who grew up on the rock & roll of the fifties and early sixties and put them in a studio together, they are bound to come up with music that feels happy, uncluttered and fresh; the kind of sounds that you bop your head to, sway your shoulders and hips […]

It really doesn’t take much to start a band. You just need someone to sing and a couple of people to play instruments. But to maintain a band, it takes heart, soul, talent, luck, stamina, guts and most importantly chemistry. For without that special ingredient, your band will be nothing more than a sorry cover […]

It was really KISS that did it; zapping all those young boys between the eyes with bloody tongues and spaceman guitar solos, sparking in them dreams of being a rock star, singing or playing guitar in front of thousands of screaming fans. KISS is to blame for over half the rock & roll musicians walking […]

Noah Hunt has been the voice of Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s band since 1997, when he recorded the Shreveport-born blues guitar player’s second album, Trouble Is. We know a lot about the blonde-haired former ingénue who can channel Stevie Ray Vaughan with just a few plucks of a guitar string and that he is mighty obsessed […]

When Ian Anderson called to talk with Glide about his latest solo album, he was in the middle of playing, as he called it, “little tour events” in the UK. A few days off and then he’d be back performing in Romania and Switzerland. Although our conversation was brief, we kept the primary focus on […]

Next week, Aerosmith will start their latest sojourn across the United States, hitting sheds in the summer heat, Slash and his erstwhile Conspirators in tow. If this was 1977, it would be a no holds barred rock & raunch three ring circus. But times have changed and Aerosmith are no longer young lions in red […]

Some people think that guitar shredding is a young man’s forte. With agile fingers and intense unwavering concentration, the sky can be the limit conjuring notes at warp speed.  Guitar players such as Jason Becker, Paul Gilbert and Yngwie Malmsteen brought power playing to the forefront via Shrapnel Records and the genre is alive and […]

Last month, the Counting Crows eased back into the illuminated spotlight to perform on Seth Meyers’ late-night show, singing two of their biggest hits, “Round Here” and “Hanginaround,” prepping themselves and their fans for a big summer tour, which kicks off on Wednesday, June 11, in Florida. Despite not having released an album of original […]

It’s not uncommon for a musician in a popular band to record a solo record. It’s a great way for them to stir up their creative juices and explore tantalizingly fresh spheres of the musical hemisphere. Unfortunately, more often than not, these trysts into new worlds are overlooked by the mainstream and quietly lay in […]

“Get ready for Bas-Fest!” Always a tornado of excitable energy, Sebastian Bach is more than ready to talk about his new solo album, Give ‘Em Hell. In fact, Bach is excited to talk about everything. To remain this positive, this downright happy, is somewhat quizzical after going through a life like his in the music […]

The songs are as iconic today as they were after being released in the late seventies and early eighties: “Faithfully,” “Separate Ways,” “Don’t Stop Believin,” “Wheel In The Sky.” It’s like they have always been a part of our lives. And Journey, the band that brought them to illustrious life, has always been out on […]

“Why don’t we do this outside. It’s great out there,” says John Tempesta, drummer for The Cult, as he leads me out to the balcony of his suite at the Hard Rock in Biloxi, where the band will end up playing an excellent set that night. But at the moment, we are taking in a […]

Standing out in a blues-making crowd is not something that guitar player Matt Schofield spends his time worrying about. Hailing from the United Kingdom, the up & coming blues player feels that he just needs to be himself, following his own pied piper visions and letting the others fret about trying to be different … […]

Put an acoustic guitar into Neal Casal’s hands and you will practically have a spiritual awakening. His fingers have some kind of uncanny magic to capture the spirit in the strings. If you’ve ever listened to his solo material, then you already know this, how his melodies are charming and inspirational, seductive and lovely, all […]