OWEN DUFFY is the founder of OC Duff Pickups, purevyor of hand-crafted custom pickups for Stratocasters, Telecasters, and more.

In the first episode of the A440 Podcast, Owen and I talk about what it’s like working with living history; why Jimmy Page favored a Telecaster in the studio; and why more and more people are coming to crafstmen like Owen to re-discover and push the boundaries of that vintage sound.

OC Duff Pickups is offering 20 percent off select products through January 31!

Learn more at www.ocduffpickups.com.

Artists mentioned in this episode include:

Eric Clapton
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Buddy Guy
Merle Hagard
Jimi Hendrix
Buddy Holly
Mark Knopfler
Brent Mason
John Mayer
Buck Owens
Jimmy Page
Don Rich
The Rolling Stones
Kenny Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Redd Volkaert
 

Hosted by Charles Fiore.

The Golden Era of Guitar

DR. DORITA S. BERGER—”Dr. Dori”—is the author of five books on the positive affects of music on neurophysiological disorders such as autism and Parkinson’s.

I sit in on Dr. Dori’s “Rhythm Kinetics” class, a term she invented, to experience music with the “whole” body and learn some of the various methods she uses to keep her students young through music.

Afterall, diagnoses are just diagnoses, not life sentences. They define each of us only as far as we let them.

Special thanks to all my friends in Dr. Dori’s Tuesday morning “Rhythm Kinetics” class!

Courtesy of The A440 Podcast: www.a440pod.com.

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Rhythm Kinetics

ERNIE BARNES, aka “Big Rembrandt,” was a Durham, NC, native, professional football player, and world-renowned artist.

His subjects included athletes and musicians. Arguably best known for his painting “The Sugar Shack,” which appeared on a Marvin Gaye album cover, Barnes painted the way music sounds, full of rhythm, movement, and life.

On this week’s episode, we stroll through “The North Carolina Roots of Artist Ernie Barnes,” on display at the North Carolina Museum of History, in Raleigh, through March 3. We talk about Barnes’ work, the influence of home, and wonder at the rare phenomenon of athlete-musicians.

Artists mentioned in this episode:

Bela Fleck
Marvin Gaye
Todd Marinovich
Bernie Williams
Bill Withers
Barry Zito

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Big Rembrandt

CRISTINA TRINITY VÉLEZ-JUSTO is a composer for film and media.

She has scored multiple festival-nominated short films, features, commercials, promotional videos, and more, including the cue “Skip Rescues Pip” from Splash!, a 3D animated short, which won Best Orchestration for an Animated Short at the Garden State Film Festival.

Trinity is an adjunct faculty member of the MFA Film Music Composition program at UNC School of the Arts. When not working on projects, she is speaking and leading workshops at universities, filmmaking events, and film festivals all over the Southeast.

She is the owner of Reel Scoring, which provides original music for film, video games, television and multimedia. She hosts a popular video series geared toward filmmakers, and she’ll be leading live workshops around the state.

Visit her website, www. reelscoring.com and follow her on Facebook, Soundcloud, and Twitter

Artists mentioned in this episode:

Ennio Morricone
Radiohead
Richard Wagner
John Williams