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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

"Nemesis Tori" by Gregory Francis (intro & part one of 3)

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  NEMESIS TORI by Gregory Francis
Monday, June 6, 2022

Sonic Sorcery: "Top Gun Anthem"

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In honor of the new "Top Gun: Maverick" movie, I'd like to re-wind the clock to 1986 and the original "Top Gun" movi...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Sonic Sorcery: Chromatic Descent with Bob Dylan's "Feel My Love"

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Bob Dylan is a man of many talents and, musically, of many lives.  With a career spanning 60-odd years, with classic songs coming from almos...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

Sonic Sorcery: The Dark Arts of "Every Breath You Take"

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From the mind of the man who brought us "Roxanne", "Message in a Bottle", "King of Pain", "We'll Be T...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Sonic Sorcery: Modulations featured in "Instant Karma!"

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This fabulous song was released in 1970 by John Lennon and is often cited as one of the fastest released songs in pop music history, as the ...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Sonic Sorcery: The Fearless Modulations of "Good Vibrations"

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In the third installment of this series, we took a look under the hood, as it were, at The Beach Boys song "Surfer Girl" which, ha...
Monday, July 19, 2021

GUITAR GODS: Jon Butcher

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The year was 1983, the channel is MTV, and the camera pans right to left....bass player, drummer, and then settles on the guitarist for a mo...
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Thursday, May 20, 2021

Slide Guitar: A Guided Musical Tour

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Son House - blues legend For brevity, we'll do a VERY condensed origin & history of slide guitar, and then a short list of a handful...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Sonic Sorcery: "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"

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This beautiful song was written by the always stellar Carole King and her then songwriting partner & husband Gerry Goffin (for context, ...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Sonic Sorcery: Exploring Sam Cooke's Classic "You Send Me"

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Here in our 4th piece in the series, we'll look at Sam Cooke's timeless classic, "You Send Me", which was written by Sam ...