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PLAYER SPOTLIGHT “When I was a kid, I wanted to be in show business. Now, I just want to be in the happiness business. I make music, and you get happy. That’s a good job.” – Tommy Emmanuel The previous spotlight found us closer to home but this week we are find ourselves just north of Sydney in a coal mining district, in the small town of Muswellbrook, New South Wales.In 1955 one of four... read more.

photograph - Rob Blackham (@blackhamimages) This week’s edition of the Strings Direct Player Spotlight sees us come home to take a closer look at British Guitarist, Songwriter and Producer Scott McKeon. Scott started playing guitar at the tender age of 4 and as with many of the players featured in our Player Spotlight series, he was heavily influenced by his parents music collection and was exposed to plenty of 50’s Rock’n’Roll, Soul, Motown and R’n’B... read more.

PLAYER SPOTLIGHT 'The Guitar Hero of Guitar Heroes' 🎩  Rock 'n' roll royalty is a status that's given and not taken; to have such an unspoken position in a world dominated by iconic figures is some achievement. The focus of this instalment is one of the most recognisable guitar players in the world, everybody who's anybody has seen his iconic image at some stage or another, he's embedded into modern society as the pinnacle Guitar... read more.

“You’re kind of nervous that you might get the guitar passed to you,” he said. “But you also kind of want it to happen. It was constantly that cross between adrenaline and fear. And I still live there.” - Rolling Stone Magazine "I grew up in a Christian home," John told the Vineyard Church website. "My father had become a Christian when he was at Cambridge in the 1920s. Both my parents loved the lord and... read more.