Beck Socks
Description: Guitar Shop is the sixth studio album by virtuoso guitarist Jeff Beck, released in October 1989 after a four-year break from making music. This was Beck's first album to showcase his fingerstyle play, leaving his more familiar plectrum playing style. Guitar Shop reached No. 49 on the U.S. charts and won Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1990, this being Beck's second album to win that award. In a further move from his previous jazz fusion stylings, Beck adopts a more straightforward instrumental rock approach on this album, save for two tracks ("Guitar Shop" and "Day in the House") on which quirky spoken vocals are included.
Description: Bill Callahan (born June 3, 1966 is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today.
Description: It seemed like a good idea: Take two of Epic Records’ hottest guitar slingers, Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and put them on the road together. Beck, 45, had been a mercurial legend since his days in the mid-Sixties with the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group, but he hadn’t toured for almost a decade; Vaughan, 34, had been off the scene for a couple of years himself, conquering a drug and alcohol problem, and while his flashy blues rock had acquired a faithful audience, the pairing wouldn’t hurt to give both their careers a little extra oomph.
