Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban
Ry Cooder's love of Cuban music had worldwide resonance in 1998 when he brought some great, forgotten musicians back into the studio to create The Buena Vista Social Club. Since then Cooder has been...
View ArticlePedal Steel
You've heard the plaintive cry of the steel guitar. The sound comes from lightly gliding a steel bar along a set of guitar strings, and it's the signature note of country music from Jimmie Rogers the...
View ArticleEnsemble Music With Electric Guitar
Imagine the solitude of mowing lawns while listening to music. Now take two electric guitars, reverb, and paint a dreamy unfolding cinematic drifting record, by a group calling itself Lawnmower.
View ArticleGuitar Multiples
For this New Sounds, we'll listen to Jeremy Peyton Jones' "18 Guitars," a work that lands somewhere between Robert Fripp's League of Crafty Guitarists and Glenn Branca's symphonies for electric...
View ArticleBalmy Fingerstyle Guitar
All the way from South Africa, guitarist and composer Guy Buttery makes a special appearance in the WNYC studio for this New Sounds. He's a virtuoso on the guitar and has developed a unique style...
View ArticleWas Robert Johnson Speeding?
Like many music fans, I’ve long owned one of the occasional reissues of Robert Johnson: King Of The Delta Blues Singers. (I think I have the 1990 reissue but there are others.) And I’ve pretty much...
View ArticleA Crimson Grail
Paris-based musician and composer Rhys Chatham once played a central role in the development of New York’s downtown music scene with a series of works for LOUD electric guitar. Now he‘s best-known...
View ArticleJimi Hendrix's Musical Legacy
Guitarist and Rock music innovator Jimi Hendrix died 40 years ago this week in Kensington's Samarkind Hotel, he was 27.Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix was an avid listener of the Blues but soon...
View ArticleNeil's New "Noise"
Neil Young’s 34th solo studio album is truly solo. On Le Noise, Young primarily plays crunchy electric guitar, unaccompanied by a band. The uber producer Daniel Lanois adds spooky vocal effects. Music...
View ArticleSofter Sides of World Music
For this New Sounds, sample from Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal's "Chamber Music," a lovely, refined album for kora and cello. Also, a Senegalese/Belgian collaboration from Malick Pathe Sow &...
View ArticleNew Music for Solo Guitar
For this New Sounds, we’ll have at least a double-helping of guitar music, featuring some solo works by Marc Ribot intended as music for films: some are adaptations of music he has actually written for...
View ArticleGuitar Music from L. A.
There's plenty of new guitar music from the Los Angeles area to be heard on this edition of New Sounds. From his release "Coward," Wilco guitarist Nels Cline remembers his murdered friend and...
View ArticleThe Axe as Art
The guitar is the focus of three separate exhibits currently on display in New York. From mixed-media representations by Picasso to exquisitely crafted instruments by luthier John Monteleone, we...
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Clapton's Guitars and Amps Sell at Auction for High Price Tags
Wednesday afternoon, a selection of amps, guitars and other memorabilia from rock star Eric Clapton's personal collection were auctioned off at Bonhams in Manhattan to a room chock-full of fans of the...
View ArticleMaster Guitar-Maker John Monteleone
In this week's Arts File, Kerry Nolan speaks with master guitar-maker John Monteleone. He's been producing hand-crafted archtop guitars and mandolins on Long Island for 40 years. Nineteen of his...
View ArticleJustice Department Raids Gibson Guitars Over Indian Rosewood
Last week federal marshalls from the Justice Department raided three Gibson Guitar facilities in Tennessee. They were looking for a rare Indian rosewood — which Gibson uses to build acoustic and...
View ArticleGig Alert: Susmit Sen
Susmit Sen“Rejuvination” - (Demo)Playing Wednesday at Drom (85 Avenue A., East Village)Get: Tickets | DirectionsLike many self-taught musicians, guitarist Susmit Sen has a sound that's entirely his own...
View ArticleEnsemble Music With Electric Guitar
Imagine the solitude of mowing lawns while listening to music. Now take two electric guitars, reverb, and paint a dreamy unfolding cinematic drifting record, by a group calling itself Lawnmower.We’ll...
View ArticleWith Composer/Guitarist John Schneider
Composer/guitarist John Schneider brings his microtonal guitars into the studio, to play his “Tombeau for Lou Harrison,” on this New Sounds. Also, there's music by Lou Harrison for just intonation...
View ArticleA Crimson Grail
Paris-based musician and composer Rhys Chatham once played a central role in the development of New York’s downtown music scene with a series of works for LOUD electric guitar. Now he‘s best-known...
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