Roy Harper Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Folk Rock’s Angry Visionary Guitar...
In 1971, Led Zeppelin released an album track called "Hats Off to (Roy) Harper." The same year, Roy Harper released Stormcock — four songs,...
Michael Chapman Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Yorkshire Cult Guitar Master’s...
One evening in the late 1960s, Jimi Hendrix turned up at a London folk club where Michael Chapman was playing. While Chapman went for...
Martin Carthy Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Father of British Folk...
In the winter of 1962 to 1963, a young American with a harmonica rack around his neck turned up in London's folk clubs, guitar...
John Martyn Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Echoplex Pioneer’s Rig
At some point in 1972, John Martyn discovered something. If you tuned the guitar low, ran it through an Echoplex tape delay set to...
John Renbourn Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Pentangle’s Folk-Baroque Guitar Architect
When John Renbourn and Bert Jansch played together in Pentangle, it was described as "downright unfair" — two of the finest acoustic guitarists in...
Davy Graham Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Father of DADGAD and...
In the early 1960s, a young mixed-race British guitarist from Leicestershire traveled to Morocco and sat with oud players in the medinas, listening to...
Jimmy Bryant Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Fastest Guitar in the...
One day in 1950, Leo Fender walked into a cowboy bar on the outskirts of Hollywood carrying the prototype of an instrument that had...
Jerry Reed Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to “The Claw” and Nashville’s Wildest...
Most of the world knows Jerry Reed as Burt Reynolds' truck-driving partner in Smokey and the Bandit, the guy who sang "East Bound and...
Grady Martin Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Nashville’s Most Important Session Guitarist
On July 12, 1960, at Bradley Film & Recording Studios in Nashville — the studio everyone called "the Quonset Hut" — Grady Martin plugged...
Johnny Hiland Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Nashville’s Legally Blind Chicken-Pickin’ Virtuoso
In the wee hours of a July morning in 1996, Johnny Hiland made a decision. He deleted the 52-page term paper he'd been working...
