Across the River

Guitarkadia

• Sir Paul’s New Album
  My favorite Beatle has a new album coming out, Electric Arguments, under his side project group, The Fireman. Telegraph talks to Sir Paul and links to a free mp3. Only McCartney can record an album the way he has this one. I personally love the thrill of going into a project without knowing what the [...]
• Guitarkadia Changes with Extra Golden
  I’d started this blog back in July not knowing where I’d go with it. I simply had my love of guitar to go with. When I’d started it, it wasn’t called Guitarkadia. I called it the very boring ‘The Guitars Blog.’ Put myself to sleep thinking about it. Guitarkadia came to me on the A train, [...]
• Sabicas: Solo por Alegrias
  Watching videos of Sabicas playing is frustrating; he made playing flamenco seem so natural and effortless. Man had chops!!! I had the great fortune of learning flamenco - if only for a few months - from one of his favorite students in NY, Dennis Koster. Here’s a clip of Dennis from the 2007 NY Guitar [...]