Arlen Roth is 62 years old today. Roth is a guitarist, recording artist, performer, tutor and author. His first solo album won the Montreaux Critics Award for Best Instrumental Album of the Year in 1978. He was a regular columnist for Guitar Player magazine from 1982 to 1992. He has performed and recorded with artists such as Bob Dylan, Danny Gatton, John Entwistle, John Prine, Kate Taylor, James Taylor, Livingston Taylor, Rick Wakeman, Paul Simon (as well as Simon and Garfunkel), Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Sonny Landreth, Levon Helm, Bill Kirchen, Duane Eddy, Steve Morse, Albert Lee and Phoebe Snow. Roth is a Telecaster enthusiast, and has written the book Masters of the Telecaster, which details the techniques and licks of many famous Telecaster guitar players. As a solo artist Roth performs frequently with his younger daughter, Lexie Roth, a recording artist, performer and songwriter in her own right. He was greatly influenced by Clarence White of The Byrds string bending style, but at the age of 14, he did not know White had invented a B-string bender for his Telecaster, so Roth developed a new style of doing this with fingers alone. He thus innovated many string-bending styles on the guitar, simulating a pedal steel guitar. He is also an innovator in the use of harmonics within guitar playing. Here Roth performs “Tequila” with Danny Gatton on Conan O’Brien’s show.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:57:27 +0000
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