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The Framus-toting riffer on his eternal quest for tone, why his solos lean more lyrical than shred, and how his band is moving forward without Rex Brown and Vinny Appice

For nearly five years, Texas singer-songwriter circles have been enamored with Jack Barksdale. Since the age of 9, the skinny kid in his signature oversized Texas flag-emblazoned boots and red beanie has been sharing stages with folk and country luminaries three and four times his age and holding his own. It’s no

In pretty much any motion picture, or work of fiction, if there’s a scene in which a character rationalizes a clearly ill-advised appropriation by saying, “What makes money bad? The people. What the people do with it,” you can be pretty sure that this character is going to get a hard lesson not in what people do with money, but what they’ll do for it. James Franco’s Tom Wright, a down-on-his-employment-luck contractor moved from the U.S. to London with his wife Anna, played by Kate H...