This week our roundup of new tunes focuses on new releases from: a renewed and mostly instrumental Santana, top-draw and rising blues star super busy Joe Bonamassa who released something like four discs in the past year, and indie blues guitar slinger Albert Cummings puts out another biting, blustery working man’s blues rocker. Read more…

New Tunage This Week. We have a spangly new release from gifted guitarist Jimmy Herring, available a week before its iTunes debut from independent label and distributor Abstract Logix. “Subject To Change WIthout Notice” is Herring’s second solo release and is all instrumental like his debut recording. Jazz, rock, blues, fusion and deep jams are all tightly in the pocket for this American guitarist from North Carolina. Read More…

Brief Tour of London Guitar Stores…my first spot of tourism was to hightail it over to the guitar stores on Denmark Street, not far from Piccadilly Circus and next to Tin Pan Alley. This unassuming and small street is the analog to our 48th Street in NYC. Read more…

The Aladdincaster… modified in the early 60s by a young lady who inherited a spiral brass Spirit Cylinder from her Father. Spirit Cylinders are containers for “thoughts left behind” by souls who have departed and no longer need them. At least that’s what merchants told her Father in the Moroccan bazaar where he purchased it. He perished a short time later. Read more…