On July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at the Newport Folk Festival and plugged in his electric guitar for what many consider to be the first time. The folk artist turned in his flannel shirt for ...

You know the Gibson Les Paul: It's that chunky electric guitar hanging off the shoulders of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, the classic axe thrust skyward by Guns N' Roses' lead guitarist Slash. You know ...

Guitar players a century ago sometimes struggled to get their instrument heard. That all changed when a small group of inventors added something into the mix – electricity. “This is really it,” said ...

Prior to the advent of electrical amplification, the role of the guitar in jazz was strictly that of a chorded rhythm instrument, chugging along with the bass and drums and helping to propel whatever ...

I remember the first time I saw Eddie Van Halen on MTV, the way he played two hands on the fingerboard during his short “Jump” guitar solo. I loved his cool “Frankenstein” guitar, so named because he ...

An article in The Washington Post suggesting that the electric guitar is dying a slow and secret death has the Nashville guitar community and music fans around the world talking, wondering if the ...

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 ...