Category Archives: Entertainment

This post is for those of you who like guitar music, especially the type of picking made famous by Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed. This is a collection of the tunes that I have done in tribute to people who … Continue reading →

My Dad would have been 84 this past Monday (July 5, 2010). He influenced me in countless ways, and I still consider him to be the finest man I have ever known. One of the ways he influenced me significantly … Continue reading →

Two songs that I dearly love, and that bring out a sense of reverence in me, are Papa’s Knee and Amazing Grace. I can’t do a good job of singing them (believe me), but my playing them on the guitar … Continue reading →

Well, I finally got off my tail and recorded a short video for YouTube: The name of the tune is Windy and Warm, the first tune I ever learned. I’ve tuned the top string in D, just to be a … Continue reading →

I had such a nice surprise today while visiting the ChetBoard Audio/Visual Page. There was a link to a recent recording by one of my favorite guitarists of all time, Paul Yandell. Paul played with Jerry Reed for 5 years, … Continue reading →

I was thinking a little while ago of Buster B Jones, and was remembering our last conversation, which occurred a couple of weeks before he passed away. I had sent him a few tunes, some of which I had composed, … Continue reading →

Many years ago, the legendary guitarists Chet Atkins and Les Paul recorded some tunes together, one of them being After You’ve Gone. They did beautiful harmony on it, mostly single-string, with a few finger rolls from Chet in parts. They … Continue reading →

This morning I bought a device that lets me plug my Godin guitar into it, and the device then plugs straight into my iMac, meaning that I can bypass having to use an amplifier and microphone to record. Turns out, … Continue reading →