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Full details on John Mayer’s “Silver Sky” PRS Guitar Revealed

What a long strange trip it’s been for John Mayer and his new signature PRS (Paul Reed Smith) guitar. Starting about a year ago, an image of a ...
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Hear Eric Clapton and Duane Allman’s isolated guitar tracks from “Layla”

Listen to Allman and Clapton’s gorgeous, intricate playing on its own. This, of course, reminded us of the equally fascinating lead guitar and vocal track from Derek and ...
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Some of the Top 5 slow guitar solos

Sometimes you just want to enjoy listening a good song with a good solo in background and not too much lyric on. If you look back in the ...
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New remastered video from Knopfler’s – ‘Going Home – Local Hero’ theme song

One of the most beautiful songs produced by Mark Knopfler is the theme song from the Local Hero movie. This song is released in 1983 and it has ...
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Learn to play Buddy Guy’s riffs

Buddy Guy is one of the last true blues legends alive. Now in his 80s, Guy still records and tours, performing shows that are known to run up ...
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Rock n’ Blues – Solo video by Mauro Marchetti

One year ago we wrote blog-post about Mauro Marchetti the Italian guitar player from Rome. In that blog-post we have shared video from Mauro’s performance together with his ...
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Mark Knopfler requests Bob Dylan or Eric Clapton to induct Dire Straits

Now is semi-officially that the front man of Dire Straits will not be at the ceremony in Cleveland this month. Mark Knopfler says he’d like one of two ...
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Happy birthday to Eric Clapton and Tracy Chapman

If there’s one day of the year to listen to ‘Give Me One Reason’ it’s – March 30th. March 30 is Eric Clapton and Tracy Chapman’s birthday, which ...
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Tommy Emmanuel teaches variations in “Freight Train” by Elizabeth Cotten

Tommy is back for a lesson on how to apply what we’ve learned to Elizabeth Cotten’s classic song, “Freight Train.” Elizabeth Cotten, who is left-handed, taught herself how ...
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Happy Birthday – Chris Whitten

The drummer who was joined to Dire Straits on their last world tour in 1991-1992 is born on this day in 1959. Chris Whitten – is born on ...
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