Though he'd also later work with Carvin, Holdsworth remained a headless guitar devotee for the rest of his life, telling Guitar World in an interview just days before his death, “Once you play a ...

How does state pride sound at its most distilled? Artists like George Strait and BigXthaPlug, spanning eras, genres, and oceans, have given us more answers to that question than we ever expected to ...

every time you opened a new door you’d swear you heard a different guitarist. He has variously sounded a little like Buddy Guy, Alan Holdsworth, Wes Montgomery, Fred Frith and Niles Rodgers ...

IF YOU’D heard Donovan singing in the 1960s about sunshine, love and psychedelia, you’d never had guessed he was from Maryhill. San ...

“I just played the guitar part on my couch – in my pyjamas ... Marangella tells Hayes he was getting a little Allan Holdsworth with his chord choices. Hayes says it was all about telling a story with ...

with the singer crediting Jimmy Page and Allan Holdsworth as the song’s “guitar wizards”, creating “a new kind of metal folk”. Since John Bonham and John Paul Jones also played ...

1865: Otto von Bismarck is elevated to the rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen. On the same day, US President Abraham Lincoln dies nine hours after being shot while ttending the play “Our American ...

with a young Allan Holdsworth on guitar. He also joined the rock and jazz influences to blues on one of John Mayall’s most ambitious pieces, the side-long “Bare Wires” suite. 16: Chester ...

Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Alan Holdsworth and Daevid Allen were all members along the way. Soft Machine became an all-instrumental powerhouse with 1971's skronky Fourth, having left behind psych ...