Canada’s own Ken Greer08.10.08

Ken Greer has to be the best Canadian guitarist/slide guitarist/keyboardist that has ever flown (for way too long in my eyes) under the radar that I know of! He certainly has to be the most underrated Canadian guitarist that I have ever heard. And I have my brother in-law to thank for this.

He has it [...]



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My new blues guitar hero03.19.08

I’ve said before that I was directed to this guy by way of Bruce Cockburn.

It was not for his personal charm but for his technique. This man had a huge influence on Bruce’s approach to acoustic guitar picking so once again, if it’s good enough for Bruce then it’s good enough for me! [...]



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My first real guitar lesson09.07.06

Boy, was that exciting and boring all at once.
I went to this older man for lessons, who had me start on slide guitar because he thought that my fingers were too small to chord. I thought that he was an idiot but he knew what he was doing, so I thought. This was one of [...]



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