Brian Setzer is an amazing musician. He plays a Gretsch guitar with tremendous power, grace and energy, and he alone resurrected the long-dead Rockabilly era with his Stray Cats group. Today, Brian’s latest effort as a solo act — Setzer Goes Instru-MENTAL! — dropped today and it is a scorching and intensive album!
In the comments stream for my — How to Salvage a $5,000 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty Guitar with a Radical Truss Rod Adjustment — article, reader Samuel Broom suggested I try the Thomastik-Infeld Jazz BeBop 12 gauge guitar strings. I decided to take him up on his advice and I am amazed to say these are absolutely the best-made guitar strings I have ever had the pleasure of stringing up.
Continue reading → Thomastik-Infeld Jazz BeBop 12-50 Guitar Strings Review
Today, in the spirit of our previously acquired domain name — DevilNote.com — we are pleased to announce we have added two more spectacular music domains that point right here to BolesBlues.com. The first domain is JazzRiff.com — and if you click on that domain name you will be routed right back here where you started:
Continue reading → JazzRiff.com and RhythmRiff.com Belong to Boles Blues
I love Licks! Learning licks is a great way to quickly feel confident learning the guitar. There are all sorts of Licks book available, but the best one for a beginner is — “Hal Leonard’s Lead Licks” — because that book will give you 220 Licks and five playing styles and a CD to help you study.
Continue reading → Lick Me Up, Lick Me Down, Lick Me Outside
Spending $3,000.00USD on a guitar — like the Eric Clapton Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster — can bankrupt a family when somebody just wants to start making music, so I set out to find the best electric guitar that cost 10 times less than the Clapton Custom. I happened upon the Ibanez Artcore AG75 — the best guitar for the money at $300.00USD — and I invite you to find out why.
When we talk about great guitarists, we think modernly of Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and, perhaps, even David Gilmour. When we think of great Blues and Jazz guitarists, many fans will point in a unified direction to Wes Montgomery. Today, I want to challenge you to discover the incredible Soul Jazz guitar of Grant Green and to help remember him forever.
Continue reading → Grant Green is the Greatest Guitarist You Never Heard
I have never been much of a picky shopper when it came to shoes. When I was a child I always wanted to get the “popular” shoes but never got anything overpriced as that was just outrageous and not to be considered. In the last few years this has translated into my only buying shoes from such places as Zappos and warehouse store locations, never paying more than one hundred dollars for a pair of shoes. I certainly did not think that I would ever buy a pair of shoes based on an e-mail message from a record store.
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