Charlie Christian Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Father of Electric Lead...
He died at twenty-five. In five years of professional playing, he changed music permanently.
Charles Henry Christian was born July 29, 1916, in Bonham, Texas....
Carl Perkins Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Rockabilly’s Founding Father
He painted his Les Paul blue after "Blue Suede Shoes" became a hit.
It had been a goldtop — a 1952 or early 1953 Gibson...
Buckethead Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Rock’s Most Enigmatic Guitar Virtuoso
He wears a KFC bucket on his head. He wears a white plastic mask on his face. He performs with a severed zombie prop...
Brent Mason Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Nashville’s Most Recorded Guitarist
He found it in a Nashville guitar shop in the early 1980s for a few hundred dollars.
It was a 1967 Fender Telecaster that someone...
Bombino Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Sultan of Shred of the...
Two of his bandmates were executed.
In 2007, the second Tuareg rebellion erupted in Niger. The government, determined to crush it in all its forms,...
Bo Diddley Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Rock and Roll’s Most Original...
Bo Diddley Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Rock and Roll's Most Original Inventor
He built his first guitar out of a cigar box,...
Billy Corgan Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Man Who Played All...
He is left-handed. He plays right-handed. He does this because there are more right-handed guitars to choose from.
This is the essential Billy Corgan pragmatism:...
Bert Jansch Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to the Jimi Hendrix of the...
He borrowed the guitars on his first album.
"I borrowed the guitars on my first album — Martin Carthy lent me his Martin 0028. The...
Albert Lee Guitars & Gear: The Complete Guide to Mr. Telecaster
Eric Clapton wrote the introduction to Albert Lee's biography. He didn't phone it in.
"He is a great, great player, fluid, lyrical, and free —...
