Frank Marino’s first solo album after Mahogany Rush is a little-known effort titled The Power Of Rock And Roll. Released in 1981, it came packaged in a cartoonish cover ( I kind of like it), but the music is anything but. Instead, this 12-inch platter is full of Marino’s incendiary playing and gruffest vocals. There’s [...]
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Erik Mongrain is a 28-year-old Montreal-based musician who, like his major influence Michael Hedges, has taken the guitar beyond the traditional flat- or fingerpicking realm and into a world where the composition dictates the tuning and technique. Mongrain plays with a combination of taps, slaps, thumps, harmonics, and picking, and uses a variety of unusual [...]
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