“Always great”: the 1978 song Mark Knopfler crowned as the height of perfect simplicity

Revisiting comments from Dire Straits legend Mark Knopfler about the classic 1978 song that made him embrace simplicity in ...
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Play any song by ear | Chord method for beginners

Whether you're into jazz, rock, pop, soul, or country, learning to play by ear starts with one essential skill: hearing and ...

Blues and Jazz Chord Masterclass! Learn the sweetest chords from world-renowned Gypsy-jazz guitarist Tim Lerch

Discover a wealth of dominant 7th, diminished and chromatically colored chords to bring variety and sophistication to your ...
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Blues and jazz chord masterclass! Learn the sweetest chords from gypsy-jazz guitarist Tim Lerch

Discover a wealth of dominant 7th, diminished and chromatically colored chords to bring variety and sophistication to your ...

How Eric Clapton’s mission to spread the blues gospel was the making of the first guitar ‘god’

The discovery of Freddie King was the Eureka! moment in the origin story of Slowhand's ascent as the British blues scene's ...

50 Songs For 50 States

Some of these tunes are by homegrown heroes; other picks are just great songs that mention a state or happen to be set there or that evoke the place in some special way. Our list has rock classics, ...
Island Free Press

Old friends, new performers, island magic define Ocrafolk Festival 2026

From OcracokeObserver.com There was, to riff off Stephen Sondheim, something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone. That sums up how the Ocracoke Folk Festival 2026 rolled on the ...
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Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan: ‘I didn’t get paid for 40 years’

As they release their 24th album, the hard rock band are still in vibrant form. Two of its veterans talk about surviving bust ...
American Songwriter

We Lost the “Harmonica Wizard” Who Was the First Black Star of the Grand Ole Opry 44 Years Ago Today

Forty-four years ago today, the world lost an endlessly influential harmonica player who was one of the Grand Ole Opry's ...
Alexandria Echo Press

Blue Wolf Duo to perform in Evansville on Friday, July 3

EVANSVILLE — Performing as Blue Wolf Duo, Jerry and Shirley Spanhanks entertain audiences between Minnesota and the Rio ...
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“I was chatting to our guitarist yesterday and he said, ‘Do you remember when we were playing around and discovered F?’”: We speak to Haircut One Hundred’s Nick Heyward

We speak to Nick Heyward about the forty-four year journey to follow-up Haircut One Hundred's chart-stealing Pelican West with Boxing the Compass When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Crystal Caves Diddy Kong Walkthrough

Quick Diddy Kong Guide to Crystal Caves. Activate the music pads at the igloo and enter; All Banana Locations for Diddy Kong. This walkthrough assumes you've played as Donkey Kong ...