Blues rock is often known genre-wide for featuring a killer guitar solo or two, especially when it comes to these three ...

Conventional wisdom dictates that the pointy end of a pick is what you use to pluck the strings. The broader top is where you ...

Vince Gill didn’t have to think long before he pointed to his favorite guitar solo of all time. During an appearance on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now, Gill named Albert Lee’s guitar solo on Emmylou ...

This video explores how guitar solos came to dominate popular music throughout the 1980s. It examines the factors that elevated guitarists into central figures within bands and across the industry.

Harley Benton has expanded its range of entry-level T-style electric guitars with a trio of instruments that come factory-modded with a Bigbsy-style vibrato unit – and with three pretty classy ...

This is the last theartsdesk on Vinyl before Record Store Day. Our RSD Special will arrive on theartsdesk Thurs 16th April.

I'll be totally honest, it’s nigh on impossible to select the best electric guitar. Guitars come in such a variety of styles and configurations that finding a single instrument in such a crowded ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd may have produced the songs that reached out beyond Southern rock's usual boundaries, but elsewhere, there’s a ...

Since forming in 2020, The Third Mind has been on something of a bender with the kind of prolific output that puts bands decades younger to shame. It feels fair to call them a supergroup of sorts, ...

Gary’s death at just 58 came as a great shock, but he left a legacy of nearly 40 years of work. If the great guitarists are often the ones that took what had gone before and used that inspiration to ...