How a fateful night at a Nashville party gave Walsh the sound he was looking for, and an all-new sound for rock guitar ...

There is a reason “Free Bird” is the most requested song at college parties and barrooms—it is electric to the utmost degree. While the song is great, the one facet of the song that people rave over ...

This video explores the decline of the guitar solo in modern music, examining how changing trends, technology, and culture reshaped one of rock’s most defining sounds. Police may have found a new ...

In a small upstairs room of a Toledo church, Del Ray Grace is preserving a sacred piece of his Pentecostal upbringing. It isn’t an altar or a cross – it’s a steel guitar. Starting in the 1930s, the ...

Robby Turner, the steel guitar legend known in Nashville as the "Man of Steel," died on Thursday (Sept. 4). He was 63 years old. Turner's son Bobby Turner confirmed the news on Facebook. "We're sad, ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

During a recent stop on Limp Bizkit's Loserville tour, Fred Durst went onstage to see if Corey Feldman's viral guitar solo is actually real. The actor is one of the opening acts on the tour, and a ...

Three years after releasing the instrumental, “Scent of Dark,” Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has released another solo song, also an instrumental titled “Deified.” The song begins with Iommi’s ...

KAILUA, Hawaii – Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings – wearable guitar picks – adorning ...