Julia Crowe interviews the world’s leading guitarists, from Les Paul, Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton and Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Melissa Etheridge, to Lee Ranaldo, George Benson and Jimmy Page. In interviews that offer an intimate insights into their beginnings as they recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of their early days.
‘Collecting these tales has been admittedly addictive because each story is as unique, compelling and illuminating as the performer… My intent was simple – to ask the artists to speak for themselves.’ – Julia Crowe
Crossing a vast array of genres, showing the common experience of all guitarists, Julia Crowe offers intimate and deeply human insights into a musician’s beginnings as her interviewees recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of those early days.
عن المؤلف
Julia Crowe is a fingerstyle-playing electric guitar soloist and film composer whose music has been featured on NPR in the U.S. and on radio in Brazil. She also works in diverse mediums (photography, painting and animation) to enhance the expression of her music.