The Fretboard Journal

made my request for b-day coming up! :)

Glad you liked it, Jack. Bob is definitely a great interview--always candid and thoughtful.

Mood Indigo at Sherry Barnett's back yard house concert in Studio City. Incredible music with a wonderful sense of lunacy that added up to a great musical experience!

Buddy Whittington with Mouse Mays at Bedford Blues Fest this summer. With Buddy Guy finishing up the evening. What made it special (besides all the great music)? Back stage pass!

Well, that was a most enlightening interview. I would have listened to it through a tin can. Bob is sucn an interesting cat - as much as he protests, he has all the business savvy poor Leo Fender lacked...

Thanks for the interview. Very insightful I think and I got alot from it.

She's an amazing singer for such a young thing! And the dog suit is... um, something.

Wow, I just made a website promo graphic today for Brenda Lee. She's performing at a casino down in Bay St. Louis, MS, ... still that little girl singing.

In Thumb's defense that was a bad era for costumes. My Mom has a shopping-mall portrait of her as a little girl sitting on the lap of "The Easter Bunny" from the same era, and the ratty Bunny costume looks like something from a Kubrick film.

hoo-boy...

So, does this mean that every guitar shop that is selling Gibsons with endangered wood will be raided as well. Or better yet, the homes of musicians suspected of owning guitars with this wood? There is so much of this wood used on guitars that, to be fair, they would have to go after everyone. The FBJ did a great write up on CITES. Issue #11.

I played a charity event with a couple of local bands and Doyle was on the bill. All the bands played their acoustic sets and we were all feeling pretty cool about ourselves. Doyle walked up, sat down all alone and started playing. We all felt about 3" tall. Amazing player and nice guy too.

Good call. This will be a great show, thanks for bringing it.

Alternative tonewoods and recycled woods are a the way we all need to be thinking.

years ago as Nickel Creek was just forming (maybe even before), I saw a mandolin workshop at Merlefest...on the stage was R. McCoury, Roland White, and Chris. They asked each to play a tune that they might play just sitting around the house and Chris, who had to be all of 15 or 16, ripped this incredible classical tune that was as complicated as anything i had ever heard live on the mandolin. In my memory it sounded like the clip featured here. So clean and polished and inspired

Spectacular! Gawd that is so enjoyable to watch and listen.

Chet Atkins was a huge fan. Devoted a lot of space in his guitar-bio to the sound, the guys, and his own efforts to get a guitar w/ their design and more accurate intonation. Here's link to Chet playing Hawaiian Wedding Song on a Del Vecchio. It was beautiful what Nato Lima said about his nostalgia for the South American jungles of his youth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE8RbumKkjo

Sad news...loved hearing "Maria Elena" all the time when I was a kid. Always loved his distinctive vibrato and clear tone.