Saturday Music Digest

Aloha to a true American music original, Don Van Vliet, AKA Captain Beefheart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQs8dka52H4

Who will play Miles Davis in an upcoming biopic?

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/don-cheadle-talks-about-miles-davis/24062

The government of Canada invests in the Medicine Hat Jazz Festival

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Government-of-Canada-Invests-in-the-Medicine-Hat-Jazz-Festival-1371221.htm

Holidaze in Hicksville

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20101217/LIFESTYLE14/101219561?Title=Dan-Hicks-brings-Hot-Licks-to-Yoshi-s

A new site on Learning Guitars for Dummies

http://bignews.biz/?id=952660

New guitar-smashing record set-1,914 of them!

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/12/17/1914-guitars-smashed-simultaneously/UPI-10871292578200/

A James Booker Bash in N'Orleans

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2010/12/ricky_skaggs_a_james_booker_ba.html

The Dark Horses of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/12/critics-notebook-rocks-halls-dark-horses.html

Playing a Les Paul guitar with George Harrison

http://www.gear4music.com/news/article/Steve-Lukather-played-Les-Paul-with-George-Harrison/31X/2010-12-17

And music made in Nepal

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/article958996.ece