Calvin Johnson is most often spoken of in relation to those with whom he has worked and whose careers he has helped further or create, whether by explicit or implicit means. Indeed, he has worked with or influenced nearly all of the largest names in indie music over the past twenty years: Be
Self-taught and having no knowledge of conventional guitar tunings (e.g. standard 'EADGBE' tuning or any established open tunings), Cotten developed her own original style. Her unique approach to left-handed guitar playing involved keeping the guitar in standard tuning but to hold it upside down. Thi
"If you'll gather 'round me, children, a story I will tell." So began many a Woody Guthrie ballad, invoking the huddle around the campfire, the community of the road, the generation that rode the rails during the Depression. Guthrie's songs gave a voice to that uprooted generation and to the struggle