Photos by Eric Townsend of James Morrison and Eric McCarley at the Highline Ballroom, New York, NY on 2/4/09.
Mötley Crüe, along with some of rock’s top touring acts, will hit the road again this summer for Crüe Fest 2: The White Trash Circus. The Live Nation produced tour
Former Jayhawks bandmates Gary Louris and Mark Olson have announced new tour dates in support of their latest Chris Robinson produced album together, "Ready For the Flood." The 10-city outing
In a statement in their fan newsletter,Wilco said they are "making major progress on the upcoming soon-to-be-titled LP. They’ve been hunkered down in the loft with Jim Scott and are
Band Of Horse have a late-spring headlining tour that includes a special all-acoustic performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City. BOH will make an appearance at the Coachella Festival,
How Wes Anderson picks the sounds for his films is beyond me. But if he’s reading, he may want to lend an ear to Secret Dakota Ring, a side project driven by OK Go guitarist Andy Ross.
The Beatles – Revolution (Take 20): MP3, FLAC Recently, a magnificent studio outtake from The Beatles’ White Album sessions has surfaced of Revolution. There are three well-known variations of the
Does anyone else find it curious that Phish hasn’t started selling downloads of their upcoming Hampton Coliseum reunion shows on LivePhish.com yet? Does this mean the band – who pioneered
With Give Us The Money Lebowski guitarist and HT contributor Nick Setteducato currently living and working in New Zealand, GUTML wasn’t included in the initial lineup announcement for this year’s
Music lovers are inherently prone to making lists. We do it all the time. Our mental instincts tell us to compare frequently. Learn which is better, rank whatever is on your mind in comparison to the last time you had a similar experience. Be the judge, it’s your opinion, after all, so it cannot be incorrect. Sports fans are of a similar ilk, albeit more obvious and statistic driven. List makers, the lot of them.
Ask a music lover to name three guitar players with real talent and you will get back as many answers as you think you will. Depending on the genre that happens to be their favorite, you may hear answers as diverse as Jimi Hendrix or Carlos Santana to B.B. King or Chuck Berry. Satriani, Clapton, Page. Trey, Muddy, Warren. First name, last name, it makes no difference. Everybody has their favorite player in each genre. So let’s narrow the playing field, shall we?
Ask the same music lover to name three jazz guitarists with the most talent still making music and you’re fishing in a much shallower pool. Pat Metheney belongs on the list, that’s a given. A very strong case could be made for Bill Frisell to be sure. Al Dimeola, Robben Ford, Les Paul, where do you start?
I’ll tell you where you start: John Scofield. Note for note, Scofield has been atop that list for decades. An imaginative composer and innovative improviser, his legacy has continued to build with each new release; 33 of them since 1977. And that’s just as the main artist. He has collaborated on more cuts than I care to count and made every one of them a better song in the process.
READ ON for AJ’s review of John Scofield at the Portland Jazz Fest…