This is nice. Congratulations to my friend Bill Dees and his old songwriting partner Roy Orbison. According to Variety, Roy’s 1964 recording of “Oh, Pretty Woman” (Bill co-wrote the song and sang harmony on the record) has been added to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry.
Twenty-five selections were added to the National Recording Registry [...]

I haven’t played much slide guitar in the last couple of weeks. It goes like that sometimes. Sometimes it’s all I want to do-sometimes I put it away. So, for the last hour or so, I’ve been giving myself a crash course because I know I’m going to be playing plenty of slide stuff tonight. [...]

There was a thing on PBS the other night about Johnny Cash. I don”t know what the name of the show was. Dan Rather was the host and it was focusing on the spiritual side of the man. I didn’t see much of it, about a half hour or so. I didn’t really see enough [...]