Here’s a new classic rock playlist from my favorite internet radio service…finetune.com!
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Podcasts feeds are now available from the South By SouthWest Music Conference panels.  I’ve always been intrigued by podcasting and there’s some very interesting topics from this year’s music panels. 
Check it out at:
2007.sxsw.com/coverage/podcasts
feeds.feedburner.com/SXSWpodcasts
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Composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and toast enthusiast Mark Ettinger has released his critically acclaimed new album “in this world.”
Mark tours regularly with the Flying Karamazov Brothers, and writes songs and other music the rest of the time. After years of backing songwriters on a variety of instruments on both coasts, he has released “in this world,” […]

Talk about your lucky breaks!  Here’s a clip of 10-year-old Billy Preston with Nat King Cole, singing a duet on his TV show. 
Classic Video on YouTube!
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The April issue of Guitar Player magazine has a really cool article about the greatest guitar albums from 1967.  They mention quite a few of my favorites, plus some I had almost forgotten about.   These four albums probably had the greatest impact on me.
  
guitarplayer.com
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There’s a great new website for streaming audio or internet radio, whichever you prefer.  It’s easy to pick your songs, build your playlist, pull up artists discography and share with your friends.  They even give you the code to embed their free player into your blog!  It’s all good at finetune.com.

I built this playlist in about […]

Reunion tours continue this year with big names making a big splash.  Genesis, one of my favorite groups from across the pond, will return to U.S. soil this autumn.  Phil Collins will reunite with fellow band mates Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks in their first tour together in 15 years. 
I’ve seen Genesis in concert a […]

If you haven’t already heard, Starbuck’s Hear Music program has grown up into a full fledged music label.  It’s rumored that Paul McCartney will be the first artist to officially sign with the new label, but I believe he still likes his “English Tea.”
Hear Music helped sell about a third of the hit duets album […]

Pete Townshend has announced his new online project called “The Method,”  during his keynote address at the South by Southwest music festival and conference in Austin, Texas last Wednesday night. 
He says the program starts in late April and will give online subscribers the chance to  “create their own musical composition by ’sitting’ for the Method software […]