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Article: On and Off the Grid

Practice, Do You? Part 1-3

Read "Practice, Do You? Part 1-3" reviewed by Dom Minasi


I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I first saw Roy Rogers sing and ...

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News: Festival

Vision 19 Honors A New Generation Of Vision Artists

Vision 19 Honors A New Generation Of Vision Artists

Honoring a New Generation of Vision Artists. Music and Art calls each generation. The Vision continues with important younger artists like Mary Halvorson and Susan Alcorn and Fay Victor with Tyshawn Sorrey. There are a few excellent young musicians playing with Charles Gayle, like Shayna Dulberger, Ingrid Laubrock and Mazz Swift. Michael Wimberly has put together ...

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News: Festival

Vision Festival 19 Celebrates Jeff Schlanger musicWitness Lifetime Of Achievement

Vision Festival 19 Celebrates Jeff Schlanger musicWitness Lifetime Of Achievement

Celebrating Jeff Schlanger musicWitness Lifetime Of Achievement on June 12th. Music as color, inked on paper shaped by the sounds blown across the page, Jeff Schlanger is the musicWitness, present where the music is. He is the visual improviser, transforming music into painting for decades, a witness to great music – Now we gladly acknowledge his ...

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Article: Album Review

Eskelin - Alcorn - Formanek: Mirage

Read "Mirage" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


The Rolling Stones, Yes, and other prominent bands have incorporated the pedal steel guitar into the rock vernacular. Here, pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn extends this instrument beyond customary Americana or Country & Western formats and becomes the link between modern jazz champions, tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and bassist Michael Formanek. She builds a bridge for ...

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A&B

Label: Golden Throat Recordings
Released: 2010

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Ambient Visage

Label: Golden Throat Recordings
Released: 2007

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And I Await The Resurrection Of The Pedal Steel Guitar

Label: Golden Throat Recordings
Released: 2007

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Concentration

Label: Golden Throat Recordings
Released: 2004

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An Afternoon in Austin...

Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: How I Love Them Old Songs, If We Make it Through December, Albourne, I Dreamt I Was Young Again, I Got Caught, I've Lived My Life, Sugene, Hello Stranger

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Article: Album Review

Susan Alcorn and Dr. Eugene Chadbourne: An Afternoon in Austin...

Read "An Afternoon in Austin..." reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Think country music, and crisp, three minute twangin' story songs float through your head; think harmolodics, and the extended free-flowing instrumental improvisations championed by Ornette Coleman come to mind. A combination of the two? Get on outta here.But as strange and incompatible as this musical marriage might sound, a couple of listens to An ...


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