At the 2010 NAMM Show we caught up withlegendary guitarist, Dewayne "Blackbird" McKnight, who was performing with T.M. Stevens ( Shocka Zooloo) and Jonas Hellborg at the Warrick/ Framus booth. McKnight had just been signed by Framus amps that day… more »

I was going to talk about the movie Easy Rider and the music that came with it. So I watched the movie again, and even if I had never seen it before I would have held it in my cultural collective memory... a movie which is anti- traditional American values. At least the traditional values of the sixties. Now, I know there were positives and negatives within the Sixties and the new ideals that rose out of it. There was a hyper conservative mindset which needed changing, perhaps like the conservative midset today. But the force of change in the sixties was turmoil and partly youthful madness. And, sorry man, I have to tell it like it is. more »

We recently gave you our first installment of the reactions of our BareFootMusicNews staffers to experiencing the NAMM All-Industry Drum Circle, sponsored by Remo, for the first time. We were compelled to research the phenomenon further, and we… more »

The 14th annual festival of Americana, folk, country and bluegrass music, Suwannee Springfest, is in swing until the 28th at the scenic campground, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, in Live Oak, Florida. Springfest is sister to the fall’s Magfest (sch… more »

Drum roll please.  We have an official announcement! Publisher Dan Grigor is delighted to welcome our newest contributor, Lynne “Moon” Saunders, a professional music photographer hailing from London and owner of Moonshayde Photography… more »

Find an album named “Bach. Art of the Fugue” by Glenn Gould and try to tell me there isn't something bigger than ourselves. more »

A BFMN Exclusive video, Part Two of the five part Martin guitar series. Click over here to check it out. more »

This is Part Two of  the  video tour of the whole NAMM 2010 Martin Guitar booth. We get to see the entire line of guitars. Chris Thomas, the extremely knowledgeable Booth Host, shows us just about every guitar in the house and is then kind enough to si… more »

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By Karen Leist Bassett In the hierarchy of musicians, bar bands tend to get little respect and even less fortune or glory. But these musical workhorses sometimes turn out to be diamonds in the rough-and-tumble bar scene, and FM Logic fits well in this ca… more »

My buddy Catfish and I were hanging around the Seymour-Duncan booth at NAMM 2010 and ran into HeXx Henderson. I had never met him before but he and Catfish did a cool interview a year ago or so and they have stayed in touch. We had fun laughing, talking… more »

This is music that plays at you from the inside, like Coltrane's “A Love Supreme”... He sneaks into your head like a meditation, and then he blasts you away with that horn on a slick and weaving roller-coaster of sound. more »

By Edward Lapple Reverb is the stuff of legends. It makes you seem bigger than you really are. The truth be told, almost all musicians like the sound of reverb. One trick that every recording engineer knows is, "Verb In The Cans." What's that, you ask.… more »

On March 15 at 9 a.m. PDT, NAMM will host a free web cast to help members better understand and comply with the upcoming April 1, 2010 deadline of the revised Lacey Act. Moderated by Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations, Mary Luehrsen,… more »

While at NAMM 2010 I got lucky and setup a video tour of the whole Martin line of guitars. Chris Thomas the Booth Host shows us just about every guitar in the house and then is kind enough to sit down and talk about Martin, the man, the guitars, the comp… more »

Los Angeles, CA, March 10, 2010 — The latest addition to Roland’s industry-leading KC-Series keyboard amplifier lineup, the  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rolandus.com/products/KC-110">KC-110 Stereo Keyboard Amplifier</a>, is now shippi… more »

You know you are way too busy when it takes almost thirty years to pick up the medal to accompany the award of one of the top cultural honors a country bestows. Stevie Wonder has, indeed, kept a full schedule of charity participation, high-profile coll… more »

Recently I wrote the first part in this mini-series about getting decent sound from a third party sound crew. In Part 2 I'll show how, in my experience, the way to have the best sound at the lowest volume is to let the sound guy control the mix.If you… more »

From Robert Johnson on up, there is no question. Blues and rock is devil music. more »

We are excited and delighted to welcome our friend, photojournalist  Jim Messer to the BareFootMusicNews team. He goes wonderful places, experiences cool stuff and takes magnificent photos while that's happening. Fortunately for all of us, he likes us… more »

By Edward Lapple If you are like most musicians that have recorded and mixed their own songs, you have probably experienced this. You finish your session late at night and then you do a killer mix. It sounds great and you are thrilled. Thrilled, tha… more »

And rock has saved me. From Ozzy to Alice Cooper to Lynyrd Skynyrd to Pat Benatar (before she had a kid and started singing jazz, which is beautiful), rock tells you you've got to fight to live… more »