New Releases Wayne Riker / Guitar Workshop Plus!

New and Upcoming Singles: 2 Guns Drawn - “Count is out” featuring Louie Lecture & “ Robots Attack,” A Lens to the Sun – tbd, Cassie B – “Honey,” Cattle Decapitation - “We Eat Our Young,” Clance + Imes - “Free Virtual Tarot Readings,” Kahlee - “Raw” featuring Tone Spliff, Manual Scan – “David May,” Jason Mraz – “You Might Like It,” Gregory Page – “The Future,” Sara Petite - “Bringin’ Down the Neighborhood,” Rotten Cabal – “SINS,” Sons of Edison - “Carry Me,” Sorry it’s Over - “ Feel Like It’s The 60’s,” Jonny Tarr – “Let’s Take A Starship Ride,” Lindsay White -”Disappearing,” ft. Anna Ballew.

New and Upcoming Albums & EP’s: The Album Leaf - Future Falling, Blame Betty - Big Betty’s Alright!, Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite, Gangbusters – s/t, Veronica May - Between The Seems, Jason Mraz - Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride (June 23), Sara Petite - The Empress, Story and Tune – Light From the Break New and Upcoming Videos: O. Musisko “Country Song Cliche”

Acclaimed guitarist Wayne Riker has returned to teaching, giving weekly lessons at Rock and Roll San Diego. Now heading into his sixth decade in music, Riker has toured extensively, penned numerous guitar instructional books, written for national publications Acoustic Musician and Guitar Player and received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 SDMA’s. Prospective students can contact him at whyriker@gmail.com.

What inspired Riker to start teaching again? “I’ve had numerous former students inquiring about lessons so I thought it would be a good time to jump back in, in addition to missing the personal interaction with helping others to learn one on one,” he said. “I’m accepting students of all levels and most styles including Blues, Rock, Jazz, Country, slide guitar, theory, improv and I can help singer/ songwriters expand their use of chordal possibilities throughout the neck.”

In addition to teaching at RnRSD, Riker will helm the Blues Seminar for Guitar Workshop Plus taking place from June 25-30th at the Sheraton Harbor Mission Valley, with featured guest artists, guitarist Alex Skolnick and bassist Nathan East. Riker is also keeping busy in the studio. “I’ll be recording my 16th CD,

Alphabetical Blues Bash (Vol. 2) this summer with guest vocalists Lauren Leigh, Shelle Blue, Debora Galan, Josh Taylor, Rebecca Jade, Deanna Haala, Stacy Antonel, Heather Nation and Nathan Raney.

What’s Riker’s favorite thing about being a musician? “To use a classic cliche: “find something you love and figure out a way to get paid for it,” he said. “It’s worked for me for the past 54 years on the musical merry-go-round!” http://www.waynerikerguitar.com