On the new DVD “Beethoven’s Guitar Shred” (TPR Music, www.greatkat.com), The Great Kat (aka Katherine Thomas) buzzes through “Flight of the Bumblebee” at a mind-numbing 300 beats per minute. The ...
A “Guitar Named Sue,” with its mix of smooth and charred wood, exemplifies the sin and search for redemption in Johnny Cash’s art. “The Cartographer” encodes a tribute to a grandfather in the ...
The very gift that makes a session musician great can also be a curse. Oftentimes expected to be chameleon-like, it's that very act of becoming a credible musical shape-shifter that can sometimes lead ...