Weekend, Aug 29-30, 2026 – Programs 2634A & 2634B

Genesis & Marillian Guitarists Fly Together - Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery: The Echoes Interview

There have been a lot of electric guitar duets over the years, John McLaughlin recorded duet albums at different times with Larry Coryell and Carlos Santana, John Scofield and Pat Metheny got together and Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp. Okay, I’m stretching on that last one. But none been as musical and expansive as The Roaring Waves by Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery. You know them from Genesis and Marillion respectively. It’s an instrumental album, but has all the progressive rock drama you’d expect from that lineage without the bombast, and complementary guitar playing to go with it.

Steve Hackett: Yeah, we avoided the shred particle, as it were. The idea was not to compete but to have a kind of musical conversation and there’s this kind of question and answer approach, the kind of antiphonal thing. You play something, I play something, I answer to your call

That’s Steve Hackett. We talk to him and Steve Rothery about their album, The Roaring Waves today on Echoes from PRX.

On the next Echoes, music by Balthvs from their sixth album, Manifest. The Bolivian trio is in the psychedelic tradition of Khruangbin, mixing acid rock guitars, trippy songs and eastern flourishes. We’ll hear them and more on Echoes from PRX.