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Jubu Smith | Vintage Guitar® magazine

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

Produced by Hunter, Jubu features 10 tasty instrumental tracks that harken to the soul-guitar stylings of Cornell Dupree, David Williams, black gospel, and the new wave of ’90s smooth R&B. Jubu kicks it off with the toe-tapping “Hamster Wheel,” featuring drummer Calvin Napper and Hunter on hybrid guitar.
Freddie King | Vintage Guitar® magazine

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

On Getting Ready, King dodges sugary arrangements to deliver smoldering licks on “Same Old Blues,” and turns the heat up for a remake of his classic “I’m Tore Down.” “Palace of the King” has burnin’ guitar – Jeff Beck was surely listening. Speaking of, Jeff swiftly covered King’s “Goin’ Down” and gleaned extensive FM airplay, but Freddie’s version here is definitive, blurring the lines between electric blues and heavy rock.
Grace Bowers | Vintage Guitar® magazine

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

Grace can rip on her Gibson, but also lay back, as on “Tell Me Why U Do That,” trading licks with co-guitarist Prince Parker. “Madame President” finds a Stax sweet spot, the kind of hands-in-the-air gospel so hard to capture on tape. Another part of the vibe is fine vocalist Esther Okai-Tetteh, and the whole band singing backups, reminiscent of Sly & the Family Stone.
Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Oscar Jordan

From the Beatle-esque sounds of “The Greatest” through a plethora of narratives drenched in the L.A. desert, Campbell sings with a Southern California drawl, as earthy acoustic strumming buoys electric rock and roll guitars with zeal. Graham Nash makes an appearance on “Dare To Dream,” adding excellent vocal contrast to Campell’s Tom Petty treatment. The slide work is killer.
Boss Katana Gen 3

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

On the surface, this Katana looks much like its predecessors – a clean black box with top-mounted effects for easy access (especially if you put it on a stand). There are 12 amp types with tones ranging from shimmer clean to saturated crunch, and an Acoustic setting for your acoustic/electric guitar.
Danelectro Doubleneck

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

The Doubleneck uses a modified Shorthorn body shape with a spruce frame, hardboard top, and a center block to defeat feedback. It’s semi-hollow design keeps the weight in check (roughly 10.75 pounds – essentially the same as a ’70s Les Paul Custom). Its bolt-on necks are maple with 21-fret rosewood boards, each with 14″ radii carved into likable C shapes. Scale on both is 25″. For electronics, look for four Danelectro Lipstick pickups controlled by stacked Volume and Tone knobs.
Harden Rodeo Boost

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Oscar Jordan

Running between two guitars (a vintage Strat and a Les Paul Standard) and a Bassman clone, the Rodeo shined, especially when maxed, its Gain knob goosing the amp with pleasing, highly usable textures while adding none of the woofy midrange of a Tubescreamer or Klon. Clear yet gainy, it’s the sound of a cranked Bassman with rich overtones, minus the volume. The tailored tones of SRV come to mind, with a pinch of Billy Gibbons.
McKinley James | Vintage Guitar® magazine

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

What’s it like to be in a band with your dad on drums? Pops and I connect on a lot of levels, personally and musically. When we play live or are recording in the studio, it’s always an easy flow. We set up close together in one room. Which guitar players inspired you? I listen to all styles, especially living in Nashville, where I’m exposed to a lot of killer players. But to narrow it down I’d say Magic Sam, Steve Cropper, Eddie Taylor, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Jimmy Reed.
Jim Weider | Vintage Guitar® magazine

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Ward Meeker

Dubbed Masters of the Telecaster Guitar Camp and set for September 30 through October 4 at Full Moon Resort in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, it’s an educational seminar dressed in vacation clothes. The idea came to Weider as he watched his two related events grow in popularity – the Masters of the Telecaster concerts he and G.E. Smith have been hosting for a decade, and his Camp Cripple Creek, featuring players in The Band’s orbit and attended by fans of roots rock.
John Mayall | Vintage Guitar® magazine

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

“Still absorbing what John Mayall… did! He brought such hidden talents to the music world. Some of the greatest guitar players in the world would come out of his and my home country, England.