ARTISTS OF NOTE

The Dictators
Peter Himmelman
Chris Whitley
The Brandos & David Kincaid
Malcolm Holcombe
Poprocket
The Woody Guthrie Archives
Peter Case
Sondre Lerche
Terry Callier

The New York Yankees

ED ENDORSES

Santa Cruz Guitars
Breezy Ridge Instruments/John Pearse Strings
D’Aquisto Music Strings
Sabine
Heil Microphones
Calton Cases
G 7th Capo - really cool capos
Atlantic Quality Designs - zero cap cables

OTHER GEAR FAVORITES

American Archtop Guitars - Dale Unger crafts the finest archtops in the world
ART - professional audio signal processing equipment
BigHeart Slide Co. - innovative guitar slides
Digidesign - the makers of ProTools
Duncan|Turner Acoustic Research - experts on acoustic instrument amplification
Eastman Strings - archtop guitars, violins, cellos and basses
Elderly Instruments - good selection of new and used instruments
EnRoute Music - makers of the Porchboard bass for self-accompaniment
FMR Audio - really nice compressors
Jensen Transformers - build it yourself with these world famous audio transformers
Metasonix - vacuum tube synthesizers, whacky genius
Moog Music/Big Briar - the infamous Bob Moog & theremins
Novelli Guitars - Coming soon
Pick Up the World - the future of under-the-saddle pickup technology
PMI Audio - distribution of professional audio products including Joemeek and Studio Projects
Presonus - makers of tons of good affordable audio gear
Radial Engineering - direct boxes
Raven Labs - inexpensive class-A gear from David Rabe, the wiz behind SWR
Sadowsky Guitars - Luxe-luthier
Sweetwater - excellent professional audio retailer
Talking Dog Transducer Company - Steve Sank and all you ever wanted to know about ribbon mics
Taylor Guitars - solid acoustic guitars
Universal Audio - Bill Putnam’s sons carry on his tradition by producing highly regarded modern equipment with vintage sound (pre-amps, compressors)
Valvotronics - custom-order classic vacuum tube equipment
Wechter Guitars - Great sounding affordable acoustic/electrics for the touring musician

CURIOUS MINDS

Music Row Democrats
Reality Checks - (I did this!) Authored for Music Row Democrats.
Spot X Images - extreme sports and nature photography