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Ben Harper’s grandfather sold Woody Guthrie’s Martin on the cheap because he didn’t know it belonged to him
Guthrie had tried to expand the acoustic to see what difference it made to the sound. Unfortunately, by the time Harper’s grandfather found out about the guitar's story, he had already sold it
Ben Harper borrowed back a Martin from his One Direction fan daughter to use on a Harry Styles album
“I had been playing Harry Styles when he was in One Direction and giving her tacks to put up their posters,” Harper explained to GP. “But I didn’t tell her why I wanted her guitar, because I didn’t know if I was going to make the track”
Betty Davis's self-titled debut album is essential funk guitar listening
This oft-overlooked, and recently-reissued, album sprang from the early '70s Bay Area music scene, which featured some of the best funk ever played by human hands
With a spunky vintage National resonator, Tinsley Ellis has finally gone acoustic
Though he often feels, when called to the stage to start a solo show, “like the executioner has arrived to take me to the gallows,” Ellis's new acoustic album, Naked Truth, finds the veteran guitarist right at home without accompaniment
Marshall Crenshaw looks back on the making of his masterpiece, Field Day
With the help of producer-of-the-moment Steve Lillywhite, Marshall Crenshaw made the guitar album of his dreams. Critics, however, panned its production, halting his rising career. Four decades later, Field Day is finally being reappraised
Mark Knopfler says he had begun planning to record an album with Jeff Beck shortly before Beck's death
Saluting the late guitar hero's “beautiful” contribution to his all-star 2024 re-recording of Going Home (Theme From Local Hero), the Dire Straits man expressed regret that the plan never came to fruition
Jimmy Page reflects on the Yardbirds, and his short-lived two-guitar tandem with Jeff Beck
Though the two budding virtuosos had plenty of respect for one another, it perhaps isn't a huge surprise that their respective styles occasionally clashed in the Yardbirds
Jackson Browne, John Mellencamp, Mavis Staples honored by Bruce Springsteen at second annual American Music Honors
Presented by The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music, the star-studded event featured show-stopping performances from giants of soul, folk, rock, and R&B
