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Impossibly catchy, clever songs in this first solo release from James Bisset, longstanding member of cult folk-rock group Caedmon.

For years, my day job was building and managing websites. At night, I jammed and recorded, wrote tunes and played guitar but I earned my living designing, coding and developing for the web.

I was in Scotland recently, and bought a copy of the Sunday Herald, for a while there the only newspaper to support Scottish independence.

Yamaha are consistently underrated by the fan-boys. So here's a review of one of their more inventive recent guitars.

A couple of months ago I wrote about the importance of Open Mic nights for the development of your writing and performing skills.

Being an anal sort of fellow, I group the various music apps on my iPhone into a ‘Play’ folder for all the tools that are supposed to help me create, and a ‘Listen’ folder for all the apps I can us

For most of 2016, I've been playing once a week, three songs at a time in my very own local bar. It's been a revelation.

Let's be honest. If it's not complicated, it's probably not worth it. Time to upgrade the web site.

Maple vs rosewood fingerboard in another blind A/B test. Can you tell the difference?

In which I offer up AB testing of nearly vintage Kent Armstrong pickups against modern retro Bare Knuckle Apaches...