Jim Campilongo

One of the rare jazz masters who actually played a Jazzmaster, Roy Lanham slayed listeners the old-fashioned way: with his bare hands.

When the album ‘22 Original Gospel Greats’ found Jim Campilongo it felt like divine intervention.

This vinyl treasure is a high-octane palate cleanser and something positive to binge on.

This timeless and powerful recording from the brothers’ all-too-brief career has an otherworldly musicality.

‘Guit With It’ reveals the show-stopping excitement of his guit-steel double-neck performance in full.

Slowhand reinvented electric blues with this landmark recording.

The late, great guitarist took a stirring voyage on fusion’s treacherous waters with this classic album.

Jim Campilongo takes a trip down memory lane with this 1967 classic.

This street-savvy album was a precursor of post-punk, electronica and hip-hop.

This is an essential work from an essential jazz swing guitarist whose bad-ass Charlie Christian-esque style is ripe for rediscovery.

The classic album that gave southern rock a home.

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A player who blazed a trail for the today's country shredder, Baugh is an under-celebrated virtuoso who is ripe for rediscovery.

The Father of Texas Blues helped shape the future of rock 'n' roll.

The punk masterpiece continues to hit all the right spots.

The music of Trio Matamoros is alive with Cuba’s bolero-son traditions.

Video This groundbreaking album was a tour de force for electric guitar in the 20th century.

Gospel, blues, soul? Ray Charles embraced it all, with a sound that was all his own.

An enduring classic, Boston's self-titled debut is much more than "More Than a Feeling."

Though her troubles were catching up with her, Holiday’s final album brought an honest and instructive close to her career.

Undeservedly obscure today, Smith is an icon of 20th-century guitar, and this was his finest moment.

Ritchie Blackmore brings the fire on Deep Purple’s 1972 hard-rock masterpiece.

Burrell and his band work the power of nuance on his 1963 jazz guitar tour de force.

Two sides of the Yardbirds’ unique personality come to the fore with a Clapton and Beck guitar tag team.

When the Country Gentleman and the Dire Straits legend hit the studio, guitar magic started happening.