July/August 2010 
On Record: The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach(2)
photo by John Peets Dan Auerbach, the guitar-playing/singing fraction of The Black Keys, has been busy. There was the solo record Keep It Hid, then the hip-hop collaboration Blakroc, plus a dizzying array of other recent production credits (Hacienda, Cadillac Sky), not to mention the 15 crushingly awesome tracks on Brothers, he and drummer Patrick [...]
On The Horizon: J Roddy Walston And The Business
In a musical landscape that highlights irritatingly named sub-genres like “chillwave” and “glo-fi”, Baltimore’s J Roddy Walston and the Business stick out like a sore thumb. The band’s straightforward brand of balls-to-the-wall rock and roll sits like a junkyard dog at a cat show. On the phone with American Songwriter, Walston quickly admits that the [...]
Yamaha CP5
YAMAHA CP5 Stage Piano LIST PRICE: $3,299.00 My introduction to the Yamaha CP5 required carrying it down a flight of stairs from a second story office building, then loading it into the back of my car. If there had been additional flights up or down to captain, I probably would have called cartage. Though Yamaha [...]
Piano Town
Modern keyboards have made an indelible mark on the history of songwriting. Analog synthesizers emerged right alongside early computers, and the two technologies will presumably be running buddies until the very end. While so much focus gets put on the guitar’s prominence in songwriting, the piano’s linear layout has always been the most fundamental writing [...]
More in this category:
- On Track: Elizabeth Cook
- Tift Merritt: A Southern Songstress Sees Ghosts
- The Music Behind Treme
- Phoenix: The French Invasion
- Phosphorescent: Shining A Light On Country Rock
- Casiokids: Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar
- Kris Kristofferson: Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends
- Street Smarts: Watch Out! They’re Out To Get You!
- Darrell Scott: A Crooked Road
- Roland SP-404SX
- Player’s Corner: Art Neville’s Funky Knuckles
- Drinks With: Tegan And Sara
- Minimoog Voyager
- Korg Pa500
- Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Mojo
- Carry On: Jack Ingram
- Behind The Song: “These Arms Of Mine”
- Robert Randolph And The Family Band: We Walk This Road
- American Icons: Irving Caesar
- Lost In The Trees: All Alone In An Empty House
- Nord Electro 3
- On the Money: Chris Austin Songwriting Contest
- Sounding Off: So Long, New York. Howdy, East Nashville
- Guitar 101: Guitar Fest In Leipers Fork
- Under The Radar: Fried Rabbits And Fat Music
- Alesis Micron SE
