Extracting inimitable, stinging tone from his Tele with just his fingers, Albert Collins carved a hugely influential sonic ...

The Canadian singer-songwriter was recently handpicked by Shania Twain as her lead guitarist and recently reflected on her ...

The Waterboys frontman on his adopted home and the band’s ambitious new album, based on the life and times of the Hollywood ...

The guitar is one of the most ... s Andy Summers used sus2 and add9 chords to shape his identity, while Billy Duffy from The Cult used chorus, overdrive, blues licks, and open-string drones.

Kate Farquharson of Second Idol writes an op-ed detailing her experiences growing up in a hometown tainted by colonialism, a ...

You don’t have to be a full-on Freudian to see the truth in Freud’s proposal that jokes are the release of pent-up ...

Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

Unsurprisingly, however, the memories of his Heartbreaker days prove most illuminating, and, catching up with Guitar Player ahead ... with just a handful of chords – but Campbell left his ...

And when Burt and Dionne were performing at the Greek Theatre in L.A., (blues-rock mainstay ... into Burt’s band and they just couldn’t cut it.” Rob Shirakbari is the music director and ...

Peterson’s lead playing was their oft-overlooked secret weapon and, as the band evolved, she got more versed in power-pop jangle, power chords ... her guitar is the connection with her blues ...

American blues guitarist and former ... not the crunching power chords one might associate with the Stones. Keith’s phased guitar is played through a wah-wah, producing a muted funk feel, ...