19 studio albums, and nine Grammy Awards - including a lifetime achievement award. Her early albums were dubbed "folk" by reviewers as Mitchell notes, "they just saw a girl with a guitar and to them, that meant it had to be 'folk music'". Now considered...
The best part of our regular visits to South Carolina farm country involved all of us sitting around to watch him play this guitar. On a good day, my great grandmother would accompany him on autoharp and the rest of the family would kick in with improvised vocal harmonies. For me, this...
Five years later,Herbie Hancock— one of the most brilliant harmonic thinkers of the 20th century, and 21st — won Album Of The Year forRiver: The Joni Letters, his tribute to his old collaborator and fellow game-changing geniusJoni Mitchell. In that category, the album beat out...
As for the guitar “goddesses,” the men have the lion’s share of thrones atop Play It Loud’s Olympus. The women included in the exhibit do not receive the same standout treatment, save for the acoustic guitar bearing Jackson’s name and a piano from Lady Gaga’sera that was aset-pi...
The great unveiling: StillJReming is Jean-Rene Ella, and though I’ve never met the man, he taught me how to play guitar. more Nov 17, 2009 Gabe Birnbaum AEM021 Cuddle Magic It would be easy to accuse Cuddle Magic of being Luddites if only they weren’t making music about a hund...
Learning to Play the Ukulele There are seven basic major and minor ukulele chords, and they can be played using between one and four fingers. The chords are: A(m); B(m); C(m); D(m); E(m); F(m); G(m); If you already feel comfortable playing guitar, you'll get into the ...
It’s going to be plugging a guitar into an amp and playing rock and roll music with no bells and whistles. The reason why I always say bar and busking is that when you’re in a scenario like that, it’s very important to get through to people. To use what you know how to ...
The deaths of three young rock stars, Janis Jo-pling, Jim Morrison and the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix were all related to drugs. Not all of the rock musicians came from California or the U. S. A. . That was the time of the great British rock groups like the Beatles and the ...
Timing is perhaps Hugo 2’s strongest suit of all – it brings absolutely believable unity to ensemble music. That Michael Jackson tune features both brass and strings sections in addition to the more standard bass/guitar/keyboard/drums rock’n’roll line-up, but there’s never any suggestion...
This powerful, evocative original song has a blues/rock influence and is dominated by some signature raspy tenor saxophone playing by Kim throughout. It should also be mentioned that the track features a notable guitar solo by Clem Clempson. ...