Category: TG News

November 27, 2020 Gordon Lightfoot, John Fahey and Al Stewart popped into my head at the start of today’s clip. Tunes referenced included Walls, Sligo River Blues and Year Of The Cat. But the focus ...

November 20, 2020 Jorma Kaukonen’s album Quah made a big impression on me when I was a teenager, and it was great to see it mentioned on the Forum this week. I did take a ...

Pictures At An Exhibition has been on my mind lately, and tickling my fingers as well. Of course, many of us were first exposed to this by Emerson, Lake & Palmer in 1970, which was ...

November 6, 2020 Today’s playing was inspired by a couple lessons I had this week. The opening one came out of working on Gimme Shelter, which got me pondering how necessary it is to play ...

October 30, 2020 Just as I was sitting down to write out some thoughts and comments for today’s update, I was interrupted by a text from one of my oldest friends (actually the best man ...

October 23, 2020 This morning I was caught by a post in the Recommend A Lesson Forum that had a bunch of suggestions for lessons. Most of them were from bands I tend to keep ...

Hi Everyone, The weekly wrap-up is ready. October 16, 2020 Today’s musical introduction started with a bit of the intro to one of this week’s new lessons, which turned into a slight improv in the ...

October 9, 2020 Blues was the opening theme today, St. Louis Blues to be specific. I recently had a couple students working on this W.C. Handy classic, mostly as done by John Fahey on his ...

The Animals, Frijid Pink, The Box Tops, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, and a few other bands/songs have been running through my head lately. I started today’s Update exploring Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood and ended ...

This week I spent some time resurrecting some forgotten tunes, starting with some Gershwin from my album Yesterday’s News – Our Love Is Here To Stay. I also played an arrangement of Can You Read ...