Tag: guitar

Sunday Music: Like Cold November Rain (Go Easy, Rider)

When your fiancé says “Let’s put some G N’ R on” you don’t argue. You embrace being 10 again, popping the cassette into the deck, and basking in the glory of using one’s illusions.  Whatever age you were when you heard “November Rain” (or especially when you first saw the video), it sticks with you.  … Continue reading Sunday Music: Like Cold November Rain (Go Easy, Rider) →

Podcast Of The Week: Jason Isbell’s Documentary w/ Bill Simmons

I was stoked when I found out the Duplass brothers were doing a Jason Isbell documentary with Bill Simmons as executive producer for HBO. If you have the HBO subscription, we watched Running With Our Eyes Closed once already, and I'm planning to watch it two or three times in the coming weeks. It's awesome. … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Jason Isbell’s Documentary w/ Bill Simmons →

Sunday Music: Birtha (Best Band You Never Heard)

I don’t know how I missed this all-female band that mixed Zeppelin with Joplin with Bikini Kill energy before Bikini Kill was a thing. But I did. And until my girlfriend’s buddy Kenny said, “wait, you seriously never heard of Birtha?! We have to go to YouTube, right now," my life was incomplete. Don’t feel … Continue reading Sunday Music: Birtha (Best Band You Never Heard) →

Sunday Music: Chet Atkins Picking On The Beatles

Chet Atkins is a guitar person’s guitar person. His instrumental takes on the Beatles take my brain into another room and focuses it.  I know, I know - it’s the Beatles composition at the core, but hearing how he re-arranges these and chooses his tone, when to use chords, when to bend notes - it’s … Continue reading Sunday Music: Chet Atkins Picking On The Beatles →