As my flight lifts off from the Baton Rouge runway, a silvery trickle of sunlight glints along the plane’s wing (of which I have a perfect...
Hello Troubadourians! This month I’m writing about something non-technical for a change. I spent the weekend of October 19-21 at the FAR-West Conference, performing with my...
I’ve tried to keep politics out of these columns but if you knew something about my background, you’d know that isn’t always possible. At any rate,...
Andrew “Cactus” Soldi, Eugene “Smokey” Rogers, and Larry “Pedro” DePaul all got together as members of the Texas Jim Lewis Band (the Lone Star Cowboys) who...
Hello Troubadourians! For the past two months we’ve been talking about Equalization (EQ) and how we can use it to make our amplified guitars and voices...
I remember the first time I heard about mixing with busses. Actually, no… I don’t. I was sleeping. I woke up in the car on the...
Jamming is when folks come together with their instruments to play the classics, to try out new material, to meet new friends, and to participate in...
It was the summer of 1965 and I was back in the South. (The previous two summers I’d spent in McComb and Jackson, Mississippi as a...
Hello Troubadourians! Last month we talked about different techniques you can use to make your guitar sound more “natural” when using a piezo pickup. This month...
