- Curt's List -

From - The now defunct band: Cross Canadian Ragweed / Album "Soul Gravy" - 2004 /  In September 2010, singer Cody Canada officially announced the band was calling it quits by announcing their "Last Call Show" in October, 2010 at Joe's Bar in Chicago, IL.
 Since Cross Canadian Ragweed, singer Cody Canada and bassist Jeremy Plato formed Cody Canada & The Departed with fellow Yukon-native Dave Bowen (drums), Seth James (guitar), and Steve Littleton (keyboards), releasing their debut album in June, 2011. Randy Ragsdale and Grady Cross both returned to
Yukon, OK, where Ragsdale has since opened up a landscaping business and Cross purchased and operates the bar that was the very first venue Cross Canadian Ragweed performed in 1991...now called Grady's 66 Pub.

From: "Revelator" - Tedeschi Trucks Band - 2011
 Revelator is the long-awaited, song-oriented debut
album by the husband-wife team of singer/guitarist
Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks. Filled
with smoky, blues-dipped rockers and heart-stilling
ballads that show off, respectively, the gutsier and
softer side of Tedeschi's vocal ability, plus a series
of emotive, story-telling solos shaped by Trucks's
uncanny agility on slide-guitar, Revelator also serves
to introduce the couple's new, 11-piece ensemble
Tedeschi Trucks Band

  Rumours is the 11th studio album by British-American
rock band Fleetwood Mac. Largely recorded in California
during 1976. The record peaked at the top of both the
United States Billboard Top LPs & Tapes and the United
Kingdom Albums Chart. A Grammy Award winner, Rumours is Fleetwood Mac's most successful release with sales of over 40 million copies worldwide.
  Rumours garnered widespread critical acclaim. Praise
centred on its production quality and harmonies, which
frequently relied on the interplay among three vocalists;
Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham.
The record has inspired the work of musical acts in
different genres. Often considered Fleetwood Mac's
best release, it has featured in several publications'
lists of the best albums of the 1970s and among the
best albums of all time.

From: The 3'rd  of only 3 albums from Austin's 'Storyville' - "Dog Years" - 1998 / One of my very favorite rockin' blues bands, Fet:  Malford Milligan on lead vox & the rhythm section of Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble - Chris Layton & Tommy Shannon - plus incredible dual guitar work by John Mellencamp's David Grissom & David Holt.

Title Cut from "Bad To The Bone" - George Thorogood
& The Destroyers - 1982
#97 - Guitar World Magazine 2011 - "100 Greatest
Classic Rock Guitar Songs"
- George couldn't GIVE this song away...he originally
wrote it for blues legend Muddy Waters...but Muddy
turned it down. He then took it to Bo Diddley, who
liked it, but was without a record deal at the time.
"I came up with the phrase 'bad to the bone,' then it
took several months to write all the lyrics," says
Thorogood. " I slaved to make the whole song tough
& mythic. I really wanted somebody like Muddy or
Bo to record it because I didn't think I could pull
it off. However, I literally could not peddle it to
them, so I recorded it myself and it bacame the
song I'm best known for !"

From: Lady Antebellum's Third Album: "Own The Night"  2011  - This Award Winning Trio & Number One  Country Act for 2010 as well as CMA Album of the  Year among current awards, & other top Billboard Music stats - is comprised of: Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott, & Dave Haywood. Winner of Numerous 2011 Grammy Awards including "Song of The Year" for the Title Cut & "Record of The Year" - Album: "Need You Now".

 The Title Cut From Joe Bonamassa's latest album
"Dust Bowl" - 2011                                                            Joe Bonamassa (born May 8, 1977) just wanted to earn enough money to buy a deluxe Nintendo game when he started playing the guitar professionally. Then he met blues legend B.B. King.
At the age of 12, his mother got a call from a local promoter, Richard Thornton asking if he wanted to be the opening act at a concert at which King was the headliner. After hearing the gifted adolescent play, King was so impressed that he invited Bonamassa to tour over the summer with his band.

From: "Whenever We Wanted" - John Mellencamp - 1991
 Whenever We Wanted is American singer-songwriter and musician John Mellencamp's eleventh album, and the first to be credited simply to Mellencamp's given name
(i.e., without the "Cougar" name).
 John Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951) is an American
rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional
actor known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland
rock that eschews synthesizers and other artificial sounds in favor of organic instrumentation. He has sold over 40 million albums worldwide and has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit number-one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven, and has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one.

 Live Version of "Change the World" - From: "One More Car, One More Rider - Eric Clapton - 2002 - a song written by Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy and Wayne Kirkpatrick which was recorded by Eric Clapton with backing by Babyface for the soundtrack of the 1996 film Phenomenon. The song won Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year (for the songwriters), as well as Best Male Pop Vocal performance. The song was chosen by the RIAA as one of the Songs of the Century, ranked at #270.

From: Self Titled 2008 Album - Singer/Songwriter/Acoustic
Guitar Wizard: "Monte Montgomery"

From: "Street Survivors" - Lynyrd Skynyrd - 1977
 Lynyrd Skynyrd had already fulfilled a good deal of
its promise on definitive Southern-rock albums such as
'Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd' and the live 'One More
From the Road' when they stepped up their ambition a few more notches for this October 1977 release. Fueled by new member Steve Gaines, the Florida band produced its best album. Gaines, Gary Rossington, and Allen Collins interlocked on guitars as if they'd learned it all in the womb together, while singer Ronnie Van Zant came up with his most evocative lyrics yet.

From Their Self-Titled Debut - "Stealers Wheel"
 - 1972
 Stealers Wheel is a Scottish folk rock/rock band formed
in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1972 by former
school friends Joe Egan and the late Gerry Rafferty. (Also: U.S. #2 Hit - Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty - 1978)
Gerry provided the lead vocals on this song w/ Joe
providing harmony.                                                       Perhaps most memorable - in the scene from Reservoir Dogs where actor Michael Madsen's character 'Mr. Blonde' dances to this song on the radio as he sadistically tortures a young, police officer that they've kidnapped, bound & tied to a chair in a remote warehouse.
 Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 American crime film and the
debut of director and writer Quentin Tarantino. It
depicts the events before and after a botched
diamond heist, though not the heist itself. Reservoir Dogs stars an ensemble cast with Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn & Lawrence Tierney.
Named "Greatest Independent Film of all Time" - Reservoir Dogs was followed by the Classic Cult Favorite; Pulp Fiction...

From: "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road" - Lucinda Williams
- 1998 -                                                                                 What an awesome song !! Another song I didn't know existed until I dropped in on a Jennifer Marriott & Odd Sheep Out gig one night - already half way through the song,...and loved it instantly. (Jennifers performance is remarkable as well) I had to suffer patiently & wait a few weeks until my next Jennifer Marriott concert to ask Jennifer where that song came from...but only after I heard her play it again - because I didn't even know the song's name.         - c.f.

From: "Tyrannosaurus Hives" - The Hives - 2004
The Hives are a Swedish punk band that when playing
live all wear white jackets & ties - which is quite an
unexpected surprise...when watching these suited lads kick out some great, high-octane, guitar driven rock.       - c.f.
Check out a video of this song here

From: Keith Urban - "Defying Gravity" - 2009 / What an incredible song...absolutely perfect in every way...vocals, lyrics & instrumentaion...Keith's guitar playing is always - amazing. - c.f.

From: "Hard Workin Man" - Brooks & Dunn - 1993

From: "Shot To Hell"
Black Label Society - 2006
"Shot to Hell" is BLS's 7th studio record & 9th overall release.
 Zakk Wylde is known for his use of Gibson Les Paul Custom model guitars with a "bulls-eye" graphic on them, a design he used to deliberately differentiate himself visually from Randy Rhoads - who was also frequently identified by his white Les Paul Custom. Interestingly, one of Wylde's favorite stage guitars of late is a replica of Rhoads' Flying V.
The "bulls-eye" paint job was originally supposed to look
like the spiral from the movie Vertigo, but when it came
back incorrect from the luthier, he liked the result and
stuck with it.
Zakks Equipment:
- Practice: Zakk uses Marshall MG Series practice combos
ranging in wattage levels from 10-30W during tour/private use especially in hotels and buses. Zakk also has an extensive relationship with Marshall Amplification due to his love for their amplifiers, both solid state and valve powered.
- Live: Zakk exclusively uses Marshall JCM 800's with twin
4 X 12 Cabinets loaded with EVM12L 300W Black Label Speakers.
His usual signal path consists of his guitar > Dunlop Wylde Wah > Dunlop Rotovibe > MXR EVH Phase 90 (*Soon to be replaced by the new MXR Wylde Phase) > MXR Wylde Overdrive > MXR Black Label Chorus > split signals, one to each distorted amp.

From the double album entitled "The Beatles" Also
known as The White Album - 1968
George Harrison wrote this song - now regarded as
a classic...and song #63 - Guitar World's 2011 " 100
Greatest Classic Rock Guitar Songs". - However, the
rest of the Beatles didn't care for it. So George invited
his old pal Eric Clapton to play solo for the recording...
"for a bit of moral support and to make the others behave"
Clapton initially stalled as no additional musicians ever
played on Beatles Albums but was convinced by George
that his solo was crucial to the recording. Clapton plays
"Lucy" - the refurbished Gibson Les Paul that he'd
given George a few weeks earlier...as George plays
acoustic on the original album release.
"It was MY guitar" quipped George "He just happened
to be playing it."

From: "Set This Circus Down" Tim McGraw - 2001

From: "Family Style" - Vaughan Brothers (Stevie Ray
& Jimmie) - 1990
Stevie & Jimmie's first & only collaboration...
a celebrated union of blues guitar playing brothers
that had both conquered their demons - intended to
mark the beginning of their new musical partnership.
Unfortunately this album became Stevie's final studio
performance.