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![Marty Stuart performs onstage in Indio, California on April 29, 2023](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SAfTkP5dr8qgPkNTboJkGH-320-80.jpg)
Marty Stuart on the legendary Clarence White B-Bender Tele
By Jackson Maxwell published
“It’s an indescribable guitar,” the Nashville titan says of the late Byrds legend's iconic '54 model. “You could put a hundred Telecasters in a row, and when you plug this guitar in it just has a voice all its own”
![Fender Vibratone](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kmhVcdZTZfoh4xXjdwXsN6-320-80.jpg)
The Fender Vibratone Brought Acid-Tinged Sonics to Recordings by Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds, Cream, Pink Floyd, Todd Rundgren and Stevie Ray Vaughan
By Dave Hunter published
Here’s why many guitarists will never settle for anything less than the sound of a true rotary-speaker cabinet
![Nels Cline of Wilco performs during the 2017 Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park on July 29, 2017 in Newport, Rhode Island.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/T8JA6p8GVDLPmuSRngiVmE-320-80.jpg)
Nels Cline Names Five Life-Changing Riffs
By Jim Beaugez published
Video From the Byrds to Minutemen, the Wilco guitarist reveals five inspiring guitar tracks that changed his musical life forever
![A selection of career-defining albums featuring David Crosby albums (clockwise from top left): The Byrds 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' 'Crosby, Stills & Nash' eponymous, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 'Déjà Vu', David Crosby 'If I Could Only Remember My Name,' 'Graham Nash David Crosby' eponymous, Graham Nash & David Crosby 'Wind On the Water', 'CPR' eponymous and David Crosby 'For Free.'](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fouVmxBZPpSyZvc6W7PGSM-320-80.jpg)
"Albums Are Still Our Art Form... They Are What We Are Going to Leave Behind”: David Crosby on His Epic Recording Legacy
By Jimmy Leslie published
The acoustic legend delivers guitar insights into his classic period and final album, 'For Free'
![David Crosby attends the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PWEnrL4GJQWPoz6afZHZoF-320-80.jpg)
Folk Rock Pioneer David Crosby Dead at 81
By Rod Brakes published
The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young legend is remembered by fellow musicians with fondness
![The Beatles on a trip in the U.S., 1965](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nSvmqadXzCbT84YNJdxtpH-320-80.jpg)
Here’s How Guitarists Revolutionized Music in the Mid-‘60s
By Guitar Player Staff published
From 1965 onwards, rock ‘n’ roll was never the same
![Roger McGuinn performs with the Byrds in 1970](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CMUwWiPd34JFxooMktxEAD-320-80.jpg)
Watch the Byrds’ Epic Instrumental Rendition of Their Breakthrough Psychedelic Masterpiece, "Eight Miles High"
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Video Roger McGuinn channels the spirit of John Coltrane in this expansive 1970 performance at the legendary Fillmore East venue
![Bob Dylan, 1966](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dqLakYYdtx7SmavZKnwPDP-320-80.jpg)
Here’s Why Bob Dylan Was Essential to the Birth of Psychedelic Rock
By Christopher Scapelliti published
From the Beatles and the Byrds to Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane, the folk legend laid the groundwork for all
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