Bman's Blues Report

A Tribute To Les Paul: Live From Universal Studios Hollywood coming to DVD on September 8th A live concert tribute to the "godfather of the electric guitar" Les Paul,  featuring the world's best guitarists. With a legendary career as a hit-making musician, solid-body electric guitar trailblazer, and an inventor of unprecedented recording techniques, he has impacted and influenced the many facets of the music industry like none other. Filmed live at what was then the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on February 8, 2006, A Tribute To Les Paul: Live From Universal Studios Hollywood gives viewers a front row seat for an unforgettable night of powerhouse performances, as some of music's biggest names come together to honor the ultimate icon. The night is headlined by show-stopping numbers from an all-star slate of Paul disciples, that includes Slash and Edgar Winter teaming up o...

UK RELEASE: MONDAY 6th MAY 2013 Features Vinnie Colauita, Chris Chaney & Mike Keneally World Tour Starts in Europe in May - US Tour Starts in August Legendary performer and the hardest working guitarist in the business, Joe Satriani confirms the release of his 14th studio album, “Unstoppable Momentum” in the UK on Monday May 6 (U.S. release is Tuesday May 7) through Epic Records/Sony Music UK. The album was recorded at Skywalker Sound in San Francisco and was produced by Satriani and Mike Fraser (AC/DC). The new album features an amazing array of talented players including Vinnie Colauita (Sting, Jeff Beck) on drums, Chris Chaney (Janes Addiction) on bass and on keyboards, Mike Keneally (Dethklok). Photo Credit: © Chapman Baehler The album dovetails Satriani’s UK Tour which starts a month later on Saturday 8 June at the Manchester Apollo . Joe’s touring band for the upcoming UK dates includes Mike Keneally (keyboards), Marco Minnemann ...

Kennedy Street Enterprises Presents Tickets on sale from Friday November 2nd at 9am National Credit Card Hotline: 0844 888 9991 Book Online: www.ticketline.co.uk Agency and credit card bookings subject to a fee Joe Satriani , one of rock music’s most respected and celebrated electric guitar players, will undertake a 10-date UK tour starting Saturday 8th June at the Manchester Apollo . This will be Satriani’s first UK tour since the Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards Tour 2010 . Tickets go on sale from Friday 2nd November and can be booked online from www.ticketline.co.uk or call 0844 888 9991 or the venue direct. Very special guest is blues guitarist Matt Schofield. The tour coincides with the news that Satriani will record a new solo album later this year for a worldwide release via Sony in May 2013.  The enterprising guitarist is also in the planning stages of releasing a career retrospective box set for spring 2013. ...

I have been listening to the newest recording by Sonny Landreth , Elemental Journey to be released on May 22. This is a really different recording for Sonny Landreth in that not only is the music somewhat unstructured (more orchestrated) or hyper structured dependent upon your perception and also that it has no vocals. What I mean regarding the structure is that most of the music that I review has a very basic structure and much of it a formula. A very simple formula. Any experienced listener can listen to the average song, say here's the singing, this is where the guitar solo will be...there will be singing after that and this is the end. This recording is much more complex than that and really quite heady. Landreth has enlisted guitar wiz Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson to assist in the implementation as well as members of the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra to pull off this masterpiece of fluid music. The recording, made up of 11 tracks is really put together as a sonic story pull...

SONNY LANDRETH’S 11 th ALBUM ELEMENTAL JOURNEY IS FIRST ALL-INSTRUMENTAL OUTING May 22 release features Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Robert Greenidge and Steve Conn. BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — Sonny Landreth’s 11th album, bearing the fittingly evocative title Elemental Journey , is something very different from the Louisiana slide wizard. Released on his own Landfall label on May 22, 2012, the new CD is Landreth’s first all-instrumental effort and his most adventurous work to date. “From day one on the guitar, many genres of music have had an impact on me” says Landreth. “For these recordings, I drew from some of those influences that I hadn’t gone to on previous albums with my vocals. Trading off the lyrics this time, I focused solely on the instrumental side and all this music poured out. Then I asked some extraordinary musicians to help me layer the tracks in hopes of inspiring a lot of imagery for the listeners.” Like its predecessor, From the Reach...