Instrumental Electric Guitar Music

Pete Kennedy releases
"Tone, Twang, and Taste"
an all instrumental CD celebrating pre-rock guitar.

Electric guitars were conceived within the 1930's to accomodate the top sound put-out by huge move rings. Guitarists quickly found that the instrument had a voice all its, and top people in jazz, blues, country and rockabilly gravitated toward sound, led by musical and electronic pioneer Les Paul. The tool don't enter mainstream tradition as a iconic and innovative deluxe product before the Beatles wielded them on The Ed Sullivan Show, releasing an avalanche of product sales to everone from young ones jamming in the storage to high-powered wolves of Wall Street with money burning on expensive toys. This accompanied from the pumps of a beatnick/coffeehouse singer fascination with acoustic guitars, however the gap amongst the 1930's while the 1960's raises an interesting concern: who were the guitar players ahead of the people boom and Beatlemania, before Hendrix and Clapton? Exactly what songs did they play, what did they sound like, and how did they affect practicing the guitar heroes of boomer generation?

Pete has actually invested years studying these people, meeting with the ones which still played and people just who wanted to pass along their largely overlooked design (Les Paul when stated, "people believe I'm an electric guitar!") It turned out to be a labor of love, because amount of elegance of pre-rock players, whom combined jazz, country and very early rock'n'roll with a great grounding in musical theory and strategy, was coordinated by their particular feeling of enjoyable and humor, hence all found inside clean, brilliant tones and lyrical chops of this era...a noise rather distinct from the Claptonesque rock that features dominated practicing the guitar globe in recent years.

Les Paul, Chet Atkins and Django Reinhardt are brands that could be proven to everyone, although their music most likely continues to be unheard by most. Johnny Smith, Tal Farlow, Hank Garland, Lenny Breau, Mary Osborne, Tony Mottola, Lonnie Johnson, Leon Rhodes...the number continues on as well as on of top players who're nowadays understood simply to a little circle of guitarists, but to realize them is not only an adventure in United states songs's colorful past, but additionally a joyful leap into an audio so fresh so it continues to be brand-new these days, preserved in amber from around 1959...the age of Tone, Twang, and Taste!

Below are a few early reviews:

"Pete has come with another champion, this brand new 38-minute 14-track album. Pete plays at the least NINE different acoustic and electric guitars and ukulele, mandolin as well as drums. There was one live track (Seven Come Eleven) in which is is combined with another guitarist (Danny Gatton) and bass. And youd additionally realize that the tune is one of two that Pete composed. All rest are songs made famous by Les Paul, Merle Travis, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt yet others. Pete is just one of the most readily useful twangers on the market in my opinion (Bill Kirchen and Redd Volkeart are the other individuals; I even prefer all of them to Duane Eddy).If previously there was an album that may enable you to get motivated and moving around the home this might be one of those. Its that much fun."

-Steven Ramm, Amazon.com

UK's Guitar & Bass Magazine says:

A heartfelt tribute to the people just who pioneered instrumental guitar music between 1930 and 1960, brilliantly rendered by a guy fortunate enough having satisfied and traded licks with many of the greats. Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian and Hank Garland are all honoured with superb technique and empathy; its a labour of love that informs and entertains, and also showcases Kennedys abilities.