When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Chris Morphet/Redferns When it comes to blues guitar legends, few are as groundbreaking ...

Novelty guitars are quite a thing in the music world. And why shouldn’t they be? It’s always fun to play with tradition and form. But like, why not be into a guitar built onto a skateboard deck? Or ...

Perhaps a lesser known bluesman to the wider guitar playing community, but by no means less successful than any of his peers, is Mr Chris Rea. Hailing from the UK, Chris has had a rich and successful ...

The gig bag of many guitarists will likely hold a good deal more than the guitar itself. Spare strings, a tuner, some tools, and possibly a capo. The lattermost is used to change the pitch of strings ...

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Tony Trischka is one of the most influential modern banjo players. However, every legend draws inspiration from those who came before them. Trischka, like nearly every other banjoist in the world, ...

In early 2023, bluegrass phenom Billy Strings paid Willie Nelson a visit at the latter’s Pedernales Studio. The two were going to cut a duet of a song Strings had just written, “California Sober,” ...

When Swedish metal icons Meshuggah unleashed their mighty, low down, single-string riffs on Nothing in 2002, the meaning of the word heavy was henceforth redefined. From then, the 8-string guitar has ...