
- 368 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Julia Crowe interviews the world's leading guitarists, from Les Paul, Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton and Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Melissa Etheridge, to Lee Ranaldo, George Benson and Jimmy Page. In interviews that offer an intimate insights into their beginnings as they recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of their early days.
"Collecting these tales has been admittedly addictive because each story is as unique, compelling and illuminating as the performer... My intent was simple - to ask the artists to speak for themselves." - Julia Crowe
Crossing a vast array of genres, showing the common experience of all guitarists, Julia Crowe offers intimate and deeply human insights into a musician's beginnings as her interviewees recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of those early days.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Andy Summers
- Prologue
- Traveling Seven Hours for a Cup of Coffee
- Les Paul
- Howard Hite on Elvis’ First Guitar
- Scotty Moore
- Aaron Shearer
- Dick Dale
- Albert Lee
- Jorge Morel
- George Benson
- Roger McGuinn
- Taj Mahal
- John Hammond
- Seymour Duncan
- A Guitar on the Make
- Eli Kassner
- Paco Peña
- Pat Martino
- Bob Margolin
- Richard Thompson
- Steve Howe
- Peter Frampton
- Frederic Hand
- Richard Bruné
- Carlos Barbosa-Lima
- Juan Martín
- Dennis Koster
- The Assad Brothers
- Wings on My Fingers
- Carlos Santana
- Jimmie Vaughan
- Pat Metheny
- Christian Frederick Martin IV
- Ralph Towner
- Sonny Landreth
- Lurrie Bell
- Rory Block
- David Tronzo
- Thirty Minutes Inside a Guitar Shop
- Melissa Etheridge
- Muriel Anderson
- Tommy Emmanuel
- Martin Taylor
- Dave Alvin
- Bob Taylor
- Graham Parker
- Wolf Marshall
- Daniel Lanois
- Sharon Isbin
- The Music Conservatory of Life
- David Russell
- Roland Dyens
- Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
- Alex Lifeson
- Steve Lukather
- Joe Satriani
- Steve Vai
- Gary Lucas
- Michael McKean
- Christopher Guest
- A Sheepdog Raised by Ducks
- Kerry Keane
- Lee Ranaldo
- Paul Reed Smith
- Vernon Reid
- Marty Friedman
- Joey Santiago
- Benjamin Verdery
- David Leisner
- Tom Morello
- Daron Malakian
- Tracii Guns
- Joscho Stephan
- Johnny Hiland
- Andy McKee
- Fabio Zanon
- Jonny Lang
- Frank Vignola
- A Cup of Coffee with Jimmy Page
- Jimmy Page
- Glossary
- Guitar Makes/Models Mentioned in This Book
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
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