Arlen Roth Gets His Mojo Workin’ On New Album
Deal with King Mojo/Garage Door Records, Due Out April 14
Acclaimed Guitarist Convenes a Slide Guitar Summit
on Latest CD, with Special Guests Johnny Winter, Sonny Landreth, David
Lindley, Rick Vito, Jimmy Vivino, Jack Pearson, Lee Roy Parnell, Cindy
Cashdollar and Greg Martin,
Produced by Tom Hambridge
RIDGEFIELD, CT - Guitarist Arlen Roth announces that his new
CD, Slide Guitar Summit, which teams the acclaimed musician with
fellow slide guitar greats Johnny Winter, Sonny Landreth, David Lindley, Rick
Vito, Jimmy Vivino, Jack Pearson, Lee Roy Parnell, Cindy Cashdollar and Greg
Martin, will be released April 14 under the terms of a new deal signed with King
Mojo/Garage Door Records, distributed nationally by Burnside Distribution.
Slide Guitar Summit was produced by Grammy-winner Tom Hambridge,
and recorded at studios in New York, Nashville and Connecticut.
Called “The Master of the Telecaster,” Arlen Roth recently
celebrated the upcoming release of Slide Guitar Summit with a
special show at the City Winery in Nashville, where he was joined onstage by
album participants Rick Vito, Jack Pearson, Lee Roy Parnell and Greg Martin for
an amazing night of music. Fans that night were also treated to an advance
screening of the one-hour film, Glass, Brass and Steel: The Making of
Arlen Roth's Slide Guitar Summit Album.
“This Slide Guitar
Summit album was a longtime dream come true for me,” recalls Arlen Roth
about the recording sessions. “It's like a group of old friends getting together
for a great time that is rooted in our serious and mutual love for what we
do.”
Recording
with the late Johnny Winter was also special for Roth, since it turned out be
Winter’s last session before he passed away in 2014. “Getting to work with the
legendary Johnny Winter was such an incredible feeling, and it got the album
totally off on the right foot,” says Roth. “It was hard to believe that I was
sitting there playing ‘Rocket 88’ with him, when I could remember being 16 years
old and watching Johnny from the very front at Woodstock in 1969....this album
is of course, dedicated to this slide and blues guitar master who always served
to inspire us all.”
Roth has fond memories of all the
tracking sessions. “Each player brought something unique to this project and the
interaction between me and them is what I was looking for in making each track
truly unique” he says. “And Tom Hambridge and I go way back together as
musicians and as friends, so I was really happy to be able to see this great
producer lend his magic touch to this project. I also loved how so many of the
artists came in with some very strong choices for the songs for us to do, and
how we got to pay tribute to many of the great slide players before us such as
Lowell George, Elmore James and Duane Allman. I suppose the thing about this
album that intrigues me the most is how with the common thread of slide guitar
we were all able to touch upon so many styles, emotions, traditions and also
break new ground at the same time!”
Guitar legend Arlen Roth is considered one of the most
influential guitarists of all time, and during the course of his 45-year-career
has toured the world and recorded with an amazing list of artists, including
Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Phoebe Snow, Levon Helm, Ry Cooder,
Eric Andersen, Dusty Springfield, Janis Ian and The Bee Gees, among others. His
teaching and creation of the Hot Licks Video pioneered music and
guitar education all over the world, with his videos having sold in excess of
2.5 million copies. His current online lessons and blogs for
Gibson.com have over 1 million followers. Arlen was also the man
behind the legendary blues film, Crossroads, creating the guitar
parts, directing the guitar scenes and working alongside fellow guitarist Ry
Cooder and actor Ralph Macchio during the film’s production. He
was voted in the “Top 50 Acoustic Guitarists of All-Time” by
Gibson.com and in the “Top 100 Most Influential Guitarists
of All-Time” by Vintage Guitar Magazine. He has eight best-selling
books to his credit, and his book, Hot Guitar, is a compilation of
10 years of his wildly popular column for Guitar Player
Magazine.
Roth’s first album
Guitarist, won the Montreux Critics Award for “Best
Instrumental Album of the Year” in 1978, and his last album,
All Tricked Out!, garnered four Grammy nominations.
His new Slide Guitar Summit CD is similar in approach to his
classic and legendary album, Toolin’ Around (1993),
which featured duets with guitar greats such as Danny Gatton, Duane
Eddy, Brian Setzer, Duke Robillard, Albert Lee, Sam Bush and Jerry
Douglas, and which also became a film documentary. He followed up that album
with Toolin’ Around Woodstock, with Levon Helm, Sonny
Landreth and Bill Kirchen.
Arlen Roth
continues to record and tour all over the world. His current band, The Cordobas,
features Eddie Denise on bass, Shannon Ford on drums and Chris Foley on second
guitar. His daughter, Lexie Roth, also sings with the band, and
has become a superb recording artist, vocalist and songwriter in her own right,
with many credits to her name, such as singing on the recent Les Paul tribute
album (she sang "Vaya Con
Dios”), plus singing the blues classic, “Night Life,” on
the album with Levon Helm.
With songs that cover multiple genres of music, Slide
Guitar Summit promises to reach a wide ranging audience of fans and
promises to be one of the most celebrated albums of the year.
Arlen Roth is
also the founder and CEO of the “International Guitar Hall of Fame and Museum,”
which has been a long-time dream
for him to create.
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