Listen to the crunch of the opening guitar in " One Time Too Many" (audio).
The group often spent spare time playing Guitar Hero or watching Disney movies, although the student wasn't certain Mr. Holmes always attended.
Undaunted, the CEA, a group whose 2, 200-plus members include just about everyone having to do with electronics, from Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) to Gibson Guitar, wasted no time in getting to work.
Young George taught himself to play guitar, and by the time he was a teenager he was singing on the streets and in the clubs of Beaumont, Texas, not far from his birthplace of Saratoga.
Cooder doesn't really need to sing all the time, because his slide guitar has the wondrous ability to say more than words can.
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The uninspired, generic Hollywood score often makes the premise feel preposterous rather than moving, but there are some high points, including a gorgeous Michael Hedges tune that gets passed off as an original by August (which he plays the first time he picks up a guitar) and a gospel number featuring a solo by the preternaturally gifted young singer Jamia Simone Nash.
It's time we start thinking of African guitar music as a genre unto itself.
Yet at the same time, his breathtaking voice and guitar work are beautiful enough to make me want to weep.
But he kept the lean look of a man who still worried about tickets and guitar strings, and who did not have time for lunch.
The band's early independent release, "Porcelain, " allowed the guys to get their guitar picks and vocals wet before hitting the big time.
Though Doiron's music contains folk elements appropriate for such a sleepy, romantic backdrop, she also takes the time to crank the volume on an electric guitar.
Don and I were working with Bob Dylan on his Under the Red Sky album at that time, and he'd brought this slide guitar-playing pal of his, George Harrison, into the studio to play a few licks one day.
He got his musical start in 1953 playing lead guitar in a country-and-western swing band and became a full-time professional musician in the 1960s.
While his ramshackle piano playing has its own charm on recent albums, the twist this time around is his almost exclusive reliance on the electric 12-string guitar.
The warmth and clarity of the guitar's plucked string sound allows this music to seem relaxed and complicated at the same time.
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It was the same guitar I had seen Alexis Korner playing, a double-cutaway semi-acoustic Kay, which at the time was a quite advanced instrument, although essentially, as I later learned, it was still only a copy of the best guitar of the day, the Gibson ES-335.
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