{"id":1069,"date":"2010-08-17T12:03:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2010-08-17T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:15:44","slug":"lee-ritenour-6-string-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/lee-ritenour-6-string-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"LEE RITENOUR + 6 String Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/6-String-Theory-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1070\" title=\"6-String-Theory-M-Review-JulyAugust2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/6-String-Theory-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/6-String-Theory-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/6-String-Theory-M-Review-JulyAugust2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>L<\/strong><strong>EE RITENOUR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>6 String Theory<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Concord]<\/p>\n<p>The album is credited to Lee Ritenour, but the real star of <em>6 String Theory<\/em> is the guitar itself. To celebrate his 50th anniversary as a picker, Ritenour invited a true who\u2019s who of axemen to jam. The list includes fellow jazzers, of course\u2014John Scofield burns on \u201cLay it Down,\u201d Pat Martino shares a virtuosic tribute to a fallen legend in \u201cL.P. (For Les Paul)\u201d and Mike Stern kills on the Jeff Beck-associated \u201cFreeway Jam.\u201d But there are also blues greats (B.B. King, Taj Mahal), rockers (Slash and Journey\u2019s Neal Schon share a track) and country\u2019s Vince Gill, who takes his turn as soloist and singer alongside King, Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019 and Jonny Lang on \u201cWhy I Sing the Blues.\u201d What\u2019s notable and admirable about that particular track is that Ritenour relegates himself to rhythm guitar; in fact, he keeps the spotlight on his guests throughout <em>6 String Theory<\/em>, serving primarily as producer and coordinator. The result is both inspirational and inspired. \u2013JT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEE RITENOUR 6 String Theory [Concord] The album is credited to Lee Ritenour, but the real star of 6 String Theory is the guitar itself. To celebrate his 50th anniversary as a picker, Ritenour invited a true who\u2019s who of axemen to jam. The list includes fellow jazzers, of course\u2014John Scofield burns on \u201cLay it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[649,196,650,623,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}