Is music collecting over? Bobby Owsinski, in his article Taking the Collecting Out of Music for Forbes, seems to think so: In today’s streaming world of Spotify, YouTube and Pandora, the spirit of the music collector has been effectively killed. You might say that playlists are collections, but when there’s little in the way of a financial or physical expenditure in the … [Read more...]
Summer NAMM 2014 Music Industry Day
Summer NAMM 2014 is just a few months away and is going to run from July 17-July 19. They are once again opening the show to everyone on Music Industry Day, July 19. Music Industry Day offers musicians, pro-audio and staging professionals and music lovers access to the exclusive NAMM Show in Nashville. Try out next generation gear from hundreds of the biggest brand names in … [Read more...]
Joe Bonamassa’s Advice
Joe Bonamassa, in a recent interview with Epiphone, gives some advice on what it takes to get to the next level in your playing: Well, you know, I've been playing 33 years of my life and every day I wake up and I'm excited about the guitar. I'm excited about playing; I'm excited about the sound of the case latches opening. I always grab for it. Even when I tour a lot and I'm … [Read more...]
Texas Blues Alley
Anthony Stauffer, of StevieSnacks fame, has recently relaunched his site as Texas Blues Alley. If you've visited this site before, you probably already know that I'm a big fan of Anthony's lessons, and it sounds like this new direction will allow him to more easily create lessons that complement his Stevie Ray Vaughan lessons. I'm excited to hear about Anthony's new direction, … [Read more...]
Grace Potter and the Blues
Ed. note: This is a guest post by Elizabeth Eckhart. You can follow her on Twitter: @elizeckhart. No style of music is as conversational as the blues. It uses long-since established, intuitive structural formulas (like the 12-bar pattern) which most musicians have some level of familiarity with, as it provided the groundwork for virtually all variations of contemporary music. … [Read more...]