“Beats per minute” is not a concept that fingerstyle guitarists usually have to worry about. The world of instrumental solo acoustic guitar, rooted in the blues, modernized by John Fahey in the 1960s and carried on by practitioners such as Yasmin Williams, William Tyler and Glenn Jones, tends to move to pastoral and/or private rhythms. […]
James Hood is a secret rock star. He’s not a household name, but he looks the part and walks the walk—thankfully without talking the talk. When I interviewed him in 2002 for his Moodswings project, the British-born, Grammy-nominated Hood was renting Elton John’s house above Sunset Boulevard. The place was lush, as expected. Today, the […]
Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired Dallas-based entrepreneur seems more like the brainiac in the back of class who loans everyone his calculus notes than a slick, high-powered biotech revolutionary. But don’t be fooled. The 43-year-old Texas billionaire is something […]