1987 August Frets Vintage Guitar Mandolin Magazine - String Test The O\'Kanes For Sale

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1987 August Frets Vintage Guitar Mandolin Magazine - String Test The O\'Kanes
THE ULTIMATE STRING CHARTLeapin’ micrometers! Frets analyzes gauges, pitches, andtensions for 100 popular string sets!DECISIONS, DECISIONSHow to select the right strings for you, your playing style,and your instrument.THE O’KANES’ SECRETS OF SUCCESSNashville\'s chart-busting singer/songwriters are sei lingcountry music without sequins and kilowatts.J q AMAZING THINGS ABOUT STRINGSXI I The shimmer of a vibrating string pulses with more thanmeets the eye or ear. Explore the world within the “twang.”Q / DON’T JUST ASK FOR A ‘LIGHT’...If one company\'s “light” is another company\'s “medium,\"what’s a player to do? Frets offers a solution.CUSTOM BUILDER WILLIAM CUMPIANOX XK The ingenious designer of the compound cutaway is thrivingAn vX in a little shop in western Massachusetts.WORKSHOPSDAN CRARYSignposts on the road to musicalmotivation.CHET ATKINSA backstage peek at Chet\'s favoritesignal chains.GUEST: PAUL CHASMANGuitar harmonics: Look, Ma, bothhands!ZZZ BYRON BERLINEW Orienteering through rugged terrain onthe fiddle.DAVID GRISMANLimber up those left-hand fingers with amandolin workout.ZA JASOBRECHTWSol Hoopii: The guitarist who helpedAmerica go Hawaiian.2 1 GEORGE GRUHNO a A custom hybrid: The best of two vin-tage guitars.COVER PHOTO: Jim HatloD E P A RU SFROM THE PUBLISHER 63 PRO SOUND: Acoustic Sound Engineer Bill McElroy 64 FRETS LOOKS AT: DeArmond 260 Pickup 51LETTERS 55ON THE BEAT 65 IN REVIEW 55IT WORKS FOR ME: Tips From Our Readers 66 WHAT’S NEW 56DATELINES/STATELINES 67 QUESTIONS 58FOCUS: Remembering Andres Segovia 72 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING FRETS LOOKS AT: Taylor\'s Dan Crary Guitar FRETS LOOKS AT: Yamaha\'s LA-28 Guitar 74 ADVERTISERS INDEX GUITAR:\'•Slash\" lickGUITAR: HarmonicsexercisesGUITAR: \"LonesomeFiddler\"FIDDLE: \"NorthernSlope\"MANDOLIN: Left-handexercisesPOWERTOOLSK ieran stopped at a pawn shop on! the way to the studio and picked! up a mandolin, and I had to bor-A row his Martin D-28,” admitsJamie O’Hara, a self-proclaimedW acoustic guitar flogger. “TheW other players didn’t even knowWif we were making a demo orrecording an album,” adds Kieran Kane,who doubles on mandolin and electricguitar. “Our only motive for going intothe studio was to play the songs we hadwritten together and have a good time.”Collectively known as the O’Kanes,O’Hara and Kane are discussing the sur-prisingly casual process of recordingwhat became their first album. Releasedin August 1986, The O’Kanes [CBS, B6C-40459] is a monument to simplicity,taste, and acoustic instrumentation.There are plenty of other records that fitthat description; the astounding thingabout The O’Kanes is that it cracked Bill-boards Top 10 country charts and pro-duced a #1 single, “Can’t Stop My HeartFrom Loving You.”“We threw out all the musical andrecording rules,” Kane continues. “Atfirst, we weren’t as concerned withrhymes or phrases coming out exactlythe same. We wanted the emotion of thesong to take precedent over the rules.”How could successful professionalsongwriters like Kieran Kane (“GonnaHave A Party,” Alabama; “Don’t Worry’Bout Me,’’Janie Fricke; “As Long As I’mRockin’ With You,” John Conlee) andJamie O’Hara (“Grandpa,” thejudds;“Older Women” and “Wondering Eyes,”
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