Sam Blakelock is the founder of Pickup Music, the wildly successful Instagram based community. He single handedly curated a signature sound and culture that every Guitarist on the platform digs and interacts with on a daily basis. They feature artists, create viral videos, and produce instruction based content. He reaches…
Bill Miller owns and operates 7 businesses within Nashville that are instrumental to the development of the culture boom it has seen in the past 5 years. He has over 300 employees, and he knows nearly all of them by name. He worked closely with Johnny Cash for 35 years,…
Orville Peck is your new favorite country artist. Between selling out tours and expanding the possibility of a “genre-less” landscape, and releasing a debut LP that critics and fans all love instantly, Orville and I discuss the story of how he came to find strength in being purely himself, living…
During the Winter NAMM show, Daniel had the sincere honor to help introduce the American Professional Series with Fender at a JammCard event with almost 2,000 people in attendance. This was the premiere event of the whole weekend. With musicians who have played for Jack White, John Mayer, Kanye West,…
Steve Poltz has released 13 albums, written songs that have sold 15 million copies (Jewel’s “You Were Meant For Me”) and has developed a style of performance that incorporates iPhones, folk acoustic stylings, with comedy, satire, and personal truth that are told through both song and sketch based dialogue. He…
Kenneth Pattengale, of The Milk Carton Kids, is a Grammy Nominated Singer/Songwriter, Guitarist,Producer, and Engineer. Being the welcomed hosts of the Americana Music Awards annually, his duo has released 6 albums, all of which are immensely dense and fraught with concepts that paint landscapes of Western philosophy with permanently poetic…
I wanted to update y’all on how the tour has been! We just did our third weekend out. I’ve gotten several new guitars from Fender like the new Acoustasonic and Fender Ultra Telecaster. I also am messing around with the PRS Baritone SE model. Rockit Music Gear is making all…
Mark Agnesi is the Director of Brand Experience for Gibson Brands. Known for his concept of “Guitar of the Day,” YouTube series, he is a supremely large part of guitar culture. His understanding of content, creativity, imagination, and action, is one that I find to be supremely insightful to any…
Have you wanted to know why Guitar Hero inspired me to play real guitar? Or how I got into the Grateful Dead? If I am more hippie than a cowboy? Well, darn, you’ve found yourself in the right place, yeehaw! Giddy up and read this spectacular interview I did right…
https://reverb.com/news/videos-daniel-donatos-cosmic-country-guitar-lessons This is a series of videos, free lessons, that cover an array of topics: What is the #COSMICCOUNTRY sound? What have I learned from playing over 1,000 bar gigs? The difference between blues and country? What have I learned from my heroes that I have met and jammed with?…