Samantha Fish Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Arctic White SG and...
Samantha Fish has been described as one of the most dynamic young blues guitarists alive, but that description undersells what she actually is: a...
Marcus King Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to “Big Red” and the MK...
Marcus King keeps it simple about what matters: "Big Red is the truest guitar I've got. Just that guitar straight through a Fender amplifier...
Joseph Spence Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Bahamian Master’s Guitar Rig
In the summer of 1958, blues historian Samuel Charters and folklorist Ann Danberg Charters were doing fieldwork on Andros Island in the Bahamas —...
Bola Sete Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Seven Ball’s Nylon-String Jazz...
One night in 1962, Dizzy Gillespie came to dinner at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The hotel's Tudor Room had a guitarist playing...
Laurindo Almeida Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Father of Bossa Nova’s...
In 1953 — six years before most music histories date the beginning of bossa nova, nine years before "The Girl from Ipanema" was written...
Baden Powell Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Brazil’s Greatest Guitar Virtuoso’s Rig
One night in Rio de Janeiro — no year is precisely documented, but it was the early 1960s — Vinicius de Moraes was sitting...
Don Ross Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Two-Time Fingerstyle Champion’s Rig
Bruce Cockburn, the Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist whose own acoustic guitar work is among the finest in North American music, wrote the liner notes...
Stefan Grossman Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Country Blues Guitar Master’s...
In 1962, a seventeen-year-old boy from Queens was sitting in the apartment of the Reverend Gary Davis — the blind Harlem gospel and blues...
Michael Hedges Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Aerial Boundaries Acoustic Guitar...
One evening in Palo Alto, California, around 1980, Will Ackerman — guitarist, founder of Windham Hill Records, the label that had essentially invented the...
John Fahey Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the American Primitive Guitar Pioneer’s...
In 1959, a twenty-year-old gas station attendant in Takoma Park, Maryland, pressed one hundred copies of an album he had recorded in a church...
