Category: Interviews

The way to make change is to affect the creative thinking behind what goes into learning to play a guitar, or any art form, because once you think differently they can’t take that away from you.

It feels like the songs already exist and I’m just trying to coax them into this universe. It’s like listening to a faraway radio station that fades in and out. Each time it fades in I get a little bit more of the song

One of the things the U.S. has gotten right pretty consistently is music genres and stand-out artists. Say what you want about the U.S.—you could certainly say a lot these days — but at least we came up with Miles Davis and Joey Ramone so that’s pretty good.

Jay Dee Maness is an acclaimed pedal steel guitar player who played on the Byrds’ 1968 Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Columbia). Lloyd Green was the second steel guitar player on that album, and as a 50th anniversary commemoration, together the two of them have created an instrumental tribute to that album: Journey to the Beginning: […]

Everybody has tried to take the hillbilly out of the bluegrass. But really bluegrass needs to have a little roughness to it, although it still has to be played with this fantastic precision.