Steve Wariner

Sep 1,2009
GUITARISTS WHO BECOME SUCCESSFUL IN country music often do so because they write great songs or can sing, or both. Either way, playing guitar often becomes secondary to their careers—at least in the eyes of their More...

Johnny Hiland Is All Fired Up

Oct 4,2011
If everyone in Nashville knows the name of a guitarist, that’s really saying something. In a town where every fry cook is seemingly the best picker you’ve ever heard, it takes a lot to get noticed. But that’s what happened to More...

Jerry Douglas

Nov 1,2008
“THAT’S JERRY DOUGLAS—THE MUHAMMAD Ali of Dobro,” announced James Taylor from the Cotton Bowl stage at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2004. It was a fitting analogy, because Douglas posesses an Ali-like More...

Pete Anderson: Swamp Twang

Mar 14,2005
WHEN IT COMES TO WEST COAST HONKY TONK—the punchy, stripped-down strand of post-war country music popularized by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard—no contemporary guitarist has done more to spread the word than Pete Anderson. Best More...

Monte Montgomery

Mar 1,2009
SINCE HIS FATEFUL APPEARANCE AS A relative unknown on the fabled Austin City Limits television show in 1999, Monte Montgomery has garnered gobs of acclaim for wringing furious, bristling chops out of his 1987 Alvarez DY62C More...

Tony Joe White

Jan 1,2011
In America Tony Joe White is known largely for his 1969 hit “Polk Salad Annie.” Some may be familiar with “Rainy Night in Georgia,” as performed by Brook Benton and a host of others, but few are aware that White wrote it. In More...

Geoff Pesche on Abbey Road Online Mastering with mp3 audio

Feb 27,2010
We covered Abbey Road's Online Mastering service in the March 2010 issue of Guitar Player. Here, Abbey Road engineer Geoff Pesche talks about his approach to mastering in general, and specifically about mastering GP’s test track, More...

Stone Free

Feb 1,2011
RONNIE WOOD RAIDS L.A. TO ROCK IT UP ON HIS LATEST ALBUM, I FEEL LIKE PLAYINGTHE LATEST CHAPTER IN THE STORIED LIFE OF RONNIE WOOD FINDS THE ROLLING STONES GUITARIST BACK IN ACTION FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF HIS LATEST ALBUM, I More...

Scotty Moore

Feb 1,2009
WITH ALL THE MYTHOLOGY SURROUNDING the night Elvis Presley strode into the Sun Recording Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and recorded “That’s All Right,” it’s hard to believe that one man still walks this earth who was present More...

101 Forgotten Greats & Unsung Heroes

Feb 1,2007
It’s no secret that the talent, technique, and creative force of magnificent and awe-inspiring guitarists runs deep. And going deep doesn’t mean studying only the obvious guitar heroes. You have to get out on the fringes, and More...

Marty Stuart

Dec 1,2010
AS MARTY STUART SAYS, “THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT squirrels” in his cage. He and his band, the Fabulous Superlatives, can rock the house hillbilly style one moment, tear off some bluegrass the next, then follow that up with More...

Nashville Session Roundtable

Aug 17,2011
AS A KID GROWING UP IN CALIFORNIA AND LEARNING how to play guitar to punk-rock records, my impression of Nashville at the time was of cowboy hats and twangy guitars. However, once I moved here and started doing sessions and More...

Albert Lee

Aug 11,2010
WHEN ALBERT LEE TAKES THE STAGE WITH HIS BUDDY AND former bandleader Eric Clapton at the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, he’ll be celebrating his 50th year as a professional guitarist. Like the warp-speed solos he spins so More...

Honoring Johnny Cash

Aug 11,2010
PEOPLE TALK ABOUT RECORDS THAT GIVE YOU CHILLS ALL the time, but the final album from Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain’t No Grave [American/Lost Highway], will really do it. Every note on it serves as a stark reminder that we More...