British guitarist John McLaughlin is to receive the Frankfurt Music Prize for 2012. McLaughlin, who celebrated his 70th birthday this year, has been a dominant influence on the European and international music scene with his guitar playing for over 50 years.
According to the jury of the Frankfurt Music Prize, John McLaughlin is a musician whose work, “has always been characterized by respect and openness with regard to many other directions, forms of expression and cultures, and not by genre borders and dogmatism”. For the jurors, John McLaughlin is a person who can be described as a world musician.
PRS Guitars would like to congratulate John for this achievement.
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Canadian PRS Artist and fusion guitarist Donna Grantis will be releasing her debut album, Suites, (Diamond Gem Records) on January 17th, 2012.
This week's release of Toby Keith's new album Clancy's Tavern is seemingly being toasted in all corners as fans raise their red Solo cups in million-strong unison. That's right, the video for the album's "Red Solo Cup" passed one million views Monday evening less than two weeks after its online debut.
The third solo release from one of Texas' premier Rock, Blues, and Americana guitarists. Backed by the powerhouse rhythm section of J.J. Johnson (John Mayer, Derek Trucks) and Chris Maresh (Eric Johnson, Bonnie Raitt), this effort finds Grissom digging deeper into the Austin Blues/Rock vein he is well known for.
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