By: Stephen Rose Dengue Fever is a band from the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles that performs Cambodian pop music from the sixties with a contemporary rock sensibility. They combine world music with surf, ...
By: Stephen Rose Canned Heat was the rock band that put the boogie in the blues. They were featured in two of the most prominent rock festivals of the sixties: The Monterey International Pop Festival ...
By: Stephen Rose Led by guitarist Jim Thomas, and supported by Allen Whitman on bass and Martyn Jones on drums, the Mermen are a San Francisco surf-rock trio formed in 1989 and considered to be ...
The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan is still world-famous for its musical instruments. In the early part of the 20th century they were more famous for their mandolins than their guitars, especially when Lloyd ...
Our friend Mandolin Mike Mullins visited George Gruhn's Guitar Shop in Nashville, Tennessee.