Les Paul or The God Father of Modern Music

Legendary guitarist and musical inventor Les Paul died yesterday at 94.  Paul’s contribution to the world it much greater than just a Jazz guitarist with a famous model named after him.  He is more than just inventor.  He is perhaps the most important figure in the history of 20 century music making.  He was the [...]

Link Wray ‘n’ the Menace

Link Wray kicked ass. The probably being is not a lot of people know about all the ass he kicked. And that’s too bad. My a fore mentioned love of lists I have been surprised that he is not on a lot of the greatest guitarist list(though he has been on some.) [...]

Les Paul & Mary Ford in ‘53 or the Originals

I wrote a while back about just some important and genius Les Paul is . I still really like this but can’t imagine what it would have been like to hear in ‘53 when nothing like tit was ever done. He’s like Edison with a musician’s soul.

Lip Twitch or I am Tony Wilson

Today of course is the 30 year anniversary of the death of Elvis. I am not really an Elvis fan. Some of his early stuff is OK but I usually prefer the original version. Those we the days of “race” music of course. What an icon though. So, so many [...]