Tomatito Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Gypsy Flamenco Master’s 60-Guitar Collection
Tomatito has sixty guitars. He is not a collector in the connoisseur sense — he does not seek out vintage instruments for their historical...
Vicente Amigo Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Córdoba’s Modern Flamenco Master’s Rig
At age three, Vicente Amigo watched television and saw Paco de Lucía playing flamenco guitar. He fell in love with the guitar in that...
Amos Garrett Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the “Midnight at the Oasis”...
The most famous guitar solo Amos Garrett ever played was on a borrowed guitar. His own instrument — an Epiphone Sheraton that had been...
Rebecca Lovell (Larkin Poe) Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to “Habibi” and the...
Rebecca Lovell's pedalboard has a custom enclosure with her nickname on it: "Habibi." Arabic for "my love" or "darling" — a word of endearment...
Ally Venable Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to “The Wounded Warrior” and the...
Ally Venable was riding in the car with her father when she was twelve years old and heard Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood for...
Joanna Connor Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Chicago’s Slide Guitar Queen’s Rig
Joe Bonamassa went looking for Joanna Connor. This matters because Bonamassa has one of the most extensive and most carefully curated collections of vintage...
Ana Popovic Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Serbian Blues Queen’s Strat...
Ana Popovic grew up in Belgrade in the 1980s and 1990s under the Milošević regime — not the most accommodating environment for a young...
Tyler Bryant Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to “Pinky” and the Texas Blues-Rock...
The coach of the Dallas Mavericks came up to Tyler Bryant after a show when Bryant was thirteen years old and said: "What's your...
Eric Gales Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Raw Dawg’s Upside-Down Left-Handed Rig
When Stevie Ray Vaughan met a young Eric Gales in a Memphis recording studio, he walked up and said: "One day, you're going to...
Joanne Shaw Taylor Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to “Junior” the ’66 Esquire...
When Joanne Shaw Taylor arrived at Joe Bonamassa's Nashville home to record The Blues Album, she brought one guitar. One. Bonamassa — a man...
