Earlier today, I was over at Dave’s place, Sans Direction, reading his post, “Alt-Country: The Missing Years”. Dave pointed out that Gibson Guitars has published a list of the “Top 5 Essential Alt-Country albums” and coming in at number four was Wilco’s “Being There”. By cosmic coincidence, as I was reading the post, my good [...]

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Some artists that caught my [...]

A couple things for the guitar heads out there.
Mel Bay always started every guitar instruction book something like this.
This is a pick.

Some guys don’t go by the book.
First the great Snooks Eaglin, of New Orleans, playing “Red Beans” on a Tele.

Can’t figure out how he does all that stuff where he’s wiggling his index finger. [...]