10 Covers

June 3, 2008 | 5 Comments

A good cover version can bring out the best bits in an already great song and, as with One by Johnny Cash, can polish them like diamonds. Or it can make you rediscover a lost classic as happened for me with the Ataris’ version of Boys of Summer. Some covers are so unique that they […]

10 Guitar Solos

March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

10 awesome standout guitar solos picked by someone who wasted a great deal of his teenage years in a tiny bedroom in Portsmouth with a Washburn Les Paul copy trying and failing to learn most of ’em. This is not a definitive list of the 10 best in the world and I’m aware it’s only […]