Sometimes, it’s good to stock up. Some time back, I did a bulk order of my favorite acoustic guitar strings – the Martin Marquis (light gauge). Musician’s Friend had them for $4.19 per set, which was a pretty good price. I recently discovered that Martin has replaced the Marquis line of strings with a new […]
I’m not sure what made me think of this song, but here’s a 45-year-old cut from Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn (pronounced “Coe-burn”) – an acoustic guitar instrumental (‘Water Into Wine’) proving that sometimes, good music doesn’t require words.
I almost never listen to the radio. At home I don’t have a good enough antenna on the stereo to bring in much, and in the car I almost always have the iPod Classic, or an audio book, or a podcast playing. So I don’t even know what the current FM stations are, or where […]
I’m not sure what made me think of this song earlier today, but this early EP from 2005 has a bit more edge than her more recent stuff…
Ashley Cleveland (with a somewhat famous friend) belts out an old school hymn…
I’m not sure what the official product life is of this guitar polish, but I bought it at the (long gone) downtown Lincoln location of Dietze Music probably 20 years ago, and it’s still going strong. (One can extrapolate from this that I haven’t cleaned my guitar nearly as often as I should have over […]
I picked up a CD by a band called ‘The Rest’, on a whim, in 1998 while at the Cornerstone music festival. The CD was clearly burned on a home computer, and the CD label and insert clearly printed on a home printer. There were no liner notes, but ‘The Rest’, I figured out later, […]