When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Brian Wilson at work on Pet Sounds in 1966. His sessions for the album included some of the ...

Denny Tedesco’s tribute to the unheralded, chart-topping studio musicians of the '60s and '70s reveals how they crafted the signature pop styles of the era. By Justin Lowe They were the musical group ...

The behind-the-scenes studio musicians who helped shape the sound of Motown finally got their due in the 2002 documentary “Standing in the Shadows of Motown.” Backup singers to the stars received ...

Tickets $8 general admission, $6 CAC/NOFS members Denny Tedesco was all of 5 years old when he realized the melodies that led off the TV show Green Acres were coming from his father's guitar. Tommy ...

The legendary session bass guitar player is set to be inducted into the Rock Hall alongside the White Stripes, Soundgarden, and Bad Company in November. However, she had taken to social media to ...

Carol Kaye and Bill Pittman in the Wrecking Crew era. Denny Tedesco's documentary on the Hollywood and West Coast session musicians who played on countless hit records in the 1960s and 70s will be ...

One reason pop rock sounded so good in the 1960s was because many musicians who appeared on the recordings began as studio jazz musicians in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. They were brilliant ...

I grew up reading Guitar Player magazine. It was my bible, and probably as responsible as anything else for the simultaneous development of my mutual loves: music and writing. It was Guitar Player ...

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to “Immediate Family,” director Denny Tedesco’s follow-up to his acclaimed documentary “The Wrecking Crew.” That earlier film, which Magnolia also ...

Here's one consolation for the years it apparently took Denny Tedesco to get his labor-of-love documentary The Wrecking Crew wrapped up and in front of our eyeballs: He's been conducting interviews ...