My father studied art in Florence, Italy. We moved there shortly after I was born and stayed until he graduated five years later and moved us all back to the US...
Anyone working with TrueFire’s blues courses is likely also very familiar with Corey Congilio. His playing is impeccable and soulful. His teaching ski...
Behind every commercially successful artist is someone you’ll never see in the spotlight — the manager. They won’t make the cover of Rolling Stone or Time Magaz...
I don’t know too many guitarists with a Ferrari in their garage. Even the thought of that seems a bit incredulous unless were talking about the likes of Eric Cl...
If you look up the definition of yin and yang, you’ll be informed that “in Chinese philosophy, yin and yang describes how apparently opposite or contrary forces...
A Word From Robben
I went to Nashville to record nine songs in a single day, with six new songs my band
had never played before and a fractured wrist. (Who’s ...
You meet a lot of people at NAMM. Friends introduce you to their friends, who in turn introduce you to their friends, and so it goes for five straight days and ...
ou’ve seen the movie. Bunch of guys on an adventure of some kind. There’s the intellectual one. The one that makes the boys crack up. The one that takes cha...
The moment Tim walked into TrueFire studios, I knew there was something extraordinary about him. Big guy, crazy unruly hair, very soft-spoken, extremely polite,...
Across the entire history of music, there are very, very few guitar players who we can point to as true innovators of a new style or technique of guitar. Not ju...
They say “don’t meet your heroes because they might disappoint.” That old adage ran through my head a thousand times the day I was finally going to meet my ...
We all have our own personal favorite guitar players. We love to listen to them, talk about them, see them perform, and cop as many of their licks and moves...
A lot of people complain about having to attend or work the NAMM show. I can certainly sympathize if you have to work a booth and schmooze dealers for five ...
Born in a cross-fire hurricane to itinerant Appalachian mountain people and then sold for a barrel of gunpowder to a wandering clan of Eastern European gypsies, Brad (thankfully) found his way home at TrueFire and is a frequent "penner" of Riff content.
