American Songwriter

The Man Who Almost Recorded “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” (And the Understandable Reason Why He Didn’t)

For a brief moment in the 1960s, Nancy Sinatra’s big hit, “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”, was going to sound much different.

“You can be an educated musician but also have feel and be a street player”: Alex Skolnick on what he learned from Joe Satriani

When a teenage Skolnick studied under Satch, he found a man who was “like the equivalent of studying with a classical piano ...