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and galloping down to its strutting bass — adding magic with heavenly background vocals and a psychedelic swirling guitar solo from jazz great Lee Ritenour. Singling out songs from Jones ...

This article is a weaving together of original writing by Eric Avery with some personal history he told Matt Thompson on a ...

"Sometimes, if it's shockingly simple, and barely moving at all, but I can hum it, that's what matters because it's memorable ...

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Acclaimed vocalist Thomas Claxton has assembled another supergroup of music industry session legends for his latest “Me, Myself, & Us” concert series. Drummer Steve Ferrone, bassist Will Lee, and ...

I have an array of guitars that I use to color each particular song. I look at all of these tools as using the whole crayon ...