Formed in Palo Alto, California in 1965, the Grateful Dead are remembered for a great many things: for their counter-cultural ...

With the help of pals including Eric Gales and Vernon Reid, we run down the songs that lit up the guitar-o-sphere this year, ...

Prodigy is, after all, the term most people would use to describe an 11-year-old who played pedal steel guitar (hardly a forgiving ... the 1970s and 1980s, making songs that decidedly leaned ...

Wilson met the drummer for the band, and they offered him a gig as their steel guitar player. “At 18, things really started happening for me,” Wilson said. He learned the songs Josh Ward ...

"This analog original album was recorded in 1977 and unreleased. These songs are the original mixes done at the time of the ...

was a self-taught guitarist who said that she often composed her songs starting with the piano section first or writing on the guitar and sometimes starting with a riff. Many of her riffs were ...

Guzman and McGinn produced the track about a love interest who “only dances to cowboy songs.” (“That steel guitar’ll steal her heart,” Birge sings.) Related ...

In the autumn of 1927, Victor Records and their talent scout and producer Ralph Peer were giving some thought to an artist they had signed up that summer – a 30-year-old singer and guitarist named ...

Introduced by the lovely open chime of Lifeson’s trusty Gibson ES-335 and egged along by Peart’s hi-hat, this is the ideal example of where the band was at the time and even Lee’s uniquely shrill ...

Rush may have opened up doors that no other prog band could, but they have had some strange detours that are a bit uncomfortable.

Casper native Spencer Bohren was a master of American roots music and the blues, opening for B.B. King and playing with other ...

Written by Don Felder with an assist from Don Henley, this riffy, Southern rock-informed track is the only Eagles song to ...