Friday, October 26, 2007

"Cold Hands, Warm Heart" by Brendan Benson

This is my favorite tune (so far) by Brendan Benson.

Nice use of simple line drawings to stylize the video. Reminds me of my old stick figure cartoon "Dr. Death" a bit.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

New music at last from Michael Lee Firkins

clipped from www.magnacarta.net
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I've been a big fan of Michael Lee Firkins' guitar playing ever since his Shrapnel Records debut. Several weeks ago I read an old interview with Firkins where he said he wasn't interested in performing instrumental music any longer.

That's about the last thing I wanted to hear from him, since I listen to instrumental guitar music a whole bunch and Firkins fits comfortably in my top five favorites for the last 15 years or so.

So, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Firkins has a new (and mostly instrumental) recording coming out on the Magna Carta label--the same one responsible for the Steve Morse "Major Impacts" disks.

Drop by and have a listen to some incredible chops and tasty tone. Better yet, buy it.