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The Mixolydian Mode
Dec 01, 2009; ... Use your guitar to explore the popular and expressive fifth mode of the major scale. The term mode can refer to a number of different concepts. In medieval music, for example, a mode is either a set of rhythms or an interval (the distance between two notes). In discussions of acoustics, ...
2009 Custom Santa Cruz
Dec 01, 2009; ... Custom guitars with unique inlay themes are hardly news these days, but this Santa Cruz Guitar Company 12-fret 000 takes the concept a step further than most. With materials and friendships that span four continents, this guitar is a prime example of modern-day world trade. It all began ...
Blood and Candle Smoke
Dec 01, 2009; ... Tom Russell The big surprise on Tom Russell's new album isn't his inspired addition of Calexico's Joey Burns (guitars, bass), John Convertino (drums), and Jacob Valenzuela (trumpets) to lend rocker rele- vance to his roots music, it's that rather than rein- vent himself, Russell stays ...
The Rose Hotel
Dec 01, 2009; ... Robert Earl Keen For his 15th album, Robert Earl Keen returns to what he does best; telling sly, unlikely stories about drifters, losers, and rednecks, and some- how making you care about them. The songs can be foolish as the shaggy-dog "10,000 Chinese Walk into a Bar," with its ...
11:11
Dec 01, 2009; ... Rodrigo y Gabriela It's unbecoming for a pair of metalheads to drop mention of an odd number for no good reason, and far be it from nylon-stringers Rodrigo y Gabriela to disappoint. On the heels of their self- titled third album, the thrash-happy acoustic duo brings odd-merer rhunder to ...