Amazon.com publishes a daily deal each day featuring MP3 albums that are on sale for $2.99. Today’s MP3 Daily Deal is Sonny Landreth’s From the Reach, which features Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Robben Ford, Vince Gill, and others.
For various reasons, I don’t typically buy anything from Amazon, but this is a great deal on a [...]

One of the most interesting things about John Mayer is that he changes things up every now and then. Early in his career, he was categorized as a pop artist, and then he switched things up by touring with Pino Palledino and Steve Jordan as the John Mayer Trio playing mostly blues-oriented music.
On his [...]

“What the hell am I doing?” I thought as I looked down at the bass. I didn’t even own a bass, yet here I was in front of an audience about to play the bass in my first paying gig. How this happened is, in my opinion, a fairly interesting story.
A week earlier, my friend’s [...]

Victor Epand asked: A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as a cowbell, wood block, chimes or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. The 5 piece drum kit represents one of the best available drum sets for the beginners.
Different manufacturers include different components [...]

No pun intended, but the CMF 50 ($399 retail/$299 Street) has you well covered in the playability and tone departments. This lightweight guitar sounds quite good in clean and distorted modes—which is partly due to a solid bar-style tailpiece that’s semi adjustable and equipped with fixed, compensated saddles. The intonation proved surprisingly tuneful, and the [...]

Congratulations to Ed Pauley, who has won the first-ever Guitar Lifestyle Trivia Contest! He correctly identified Page Hamilton as the guitar player who has fronted a hard-rock/metal band in the 90s that reunited in 2004, has an ESP Signature guitar, has played guitar with David Bowie, and has studied jazz guitar in New York. Congratulations, [...]

Stevie Ray Vaughan, in an October 1984 interview with Guitar Player Magazine, responding to the question “Do any of your guitars have maple necks?”:
Lenny does. It has a real clear tone, and the pickups are microphonic-you can hear it when you hit the pickguard. But when you play it soft, it sounds great. When I [...]

Just a reminder that the Guitar Trivia contest ends tonight, August 20, at midnight CST. All you have to do is add a comment to that post with the correct answer and you will be entered to win a Guitar Lifestyle t-shirt! I’ll randomly select and notify the winner after the contest closes. Good luck!

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The Associated Press reported last week that a young 8-year old blues guitarist named Tallan “T-Man” Latz was recently banned from playing in bars in Wisconsin:
An anonymous e-mail sent to state officials complained that Tallan was too young to perform in taverns and nightclubs because of state child labor laws. His booking agent even got [...]

One of the world’s most famous British amplifier brands, Orange Amps, has just announced a major theft of a container load of amplifiers from its Borehamwood premises. Used by some of the biggest stars such as Madonna, Led Zeppelin Prince and Kaiser Chiefs, the robbers targeted this prestigious brand to carry out a daring raid [...]