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Buddy Guy on the one thing every guitar player needs to play the blues
Guy shared his insights with Guitar Player, saying, "Every interview I've ever had, I get asked 'Can a white man play the blues?' I hate that question!"
Billy Corgan on 30 years of Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
"The record company thought it was the most suicidal career move that you could make," says the Smashing Pumpkins guitarist
Joe Satriani talks Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and the 10 records that changed his life
The guitar virtuoso reveals the groundbreaking albums that shaped him as a musician
"He had that flowing melody thing that feels like you're singing along with the music." Warren Haynes talks Dickey Betts' influence as he prepares to honor the Allman Brothers Band giant in a star-studded concert
Haynes will join Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and many others for the 'In Memory of Dickey Betts' tribute show in Macon, Georgia, on February 28
How Andy Summers used chord fragments and an Echoplex to change the sound of rock guitar
The former Police guitarist told us how the group's evolution in the midst of punk led him to his breakthrough achievement as a singular guitar stylist
Steve Earle wrote a timeless tale of outlaws in America. It became a hit. Then Tennessee made it the state song
The al-country firebrand says he was just trying to build an audience for himself on rock radio when he wrote "Copperhead Road" in 1988
How a guitar accessory and a rejection of grunge created one of the 1990s' defining songs
Mark Bryan reveals how Hootie and the Blowfish claimed their biggest chart success with "Only Wanna Be With You"
“I’m going, ‘This guy is better at what I do than I am!' ” Eddie Van Halen on the one guitarist he said out–Van Halened him
Ed's impressions of Steve Vai weren't entirely positive, and he wondered if others saw him the same way
Bumblefoot says his top guitar tips will help you break out of ruts and engage with the music
The shred virtuoso also talks about working with Steve Vai and Brian May for his new album, 'Bumblefoot....Returns!'
"We hit this one lick, and the lighting director came rushing forward: 'Don't change a thing!”’ Billy Gibbons reveals how a soundcheck jam turned into ZZ Top's breakthrough hit
Gibbons says he has new music in the works with ZZ and the BFGs, whose new single — "Livin' It Up Down in Texas" from the Paramount+ series Landman — comes out today
