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Vinyl Treasures: Johnny Smith’s ‘Moonlight in Vermont’ By Jim Campilongo Undeservedly obscure today, Smith is an icon of 20th-century guitar, and this was his finest moment.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Five Acts of Legend By Guitar Player Staff A look back at the career of a perennially under-appreciated rock guitar pioneer.
Watch B.B. King Change His String Onstage Without Stopping the Song By Christopher Scapelliti They sure didn't call him the King for nothing.
Will Tash Sultana Be Guitar’s Biggest Breakout Artist of 2021? By Joe Bosso The Australian multi-instrumentalist on building a following, Fender Stratocasters, and making a guitar-centric pop record.
How Eric Johnson Wrote “Cliffs of Dover“ By Joe Bosso Johnson's 1990 signature guitar instrumental was “a gift from the universe.“
Black Stone Cherry’s Ben Wells and Chris Robertson on How to Stick the Landing on Their Hard Rock/Country Crossover Sound By Mark McStea ’The Human Condition’ finds the Kentucky stalwarts going all in with big hooks and songs that'll live long in the memory.
Watch Eric Clapton Explain and Demonstrate His "Woman" Tone in This Cream-Era Video By Damian Fanelli A young Slowhand also explains how his legendary SG, 'The Fool,' works.
Nuno Bettencourt, Tom Morello, and the Hard-Rock Heroes Who Kept the Guitar Flame Burning in the 1990s and 2000s By Guitar Player Staff As guitar players adjusted to a new post-shred normal, the next generation of players were finding new sounds and styles.
The Unstoppable Rise of Ritchie Blackmore and the Making of 'Deep Purple in Rock' By Richard Bienstock How the maniacal mind and guitar mastery of the Man in Black created a hard-rock masterpiece.
How Grand Funk Railroad Made Stadiums Their Own as They Shook a Generation with a Fierce Rock Sound By Joe Bosso Mark Farner looks back on the gear, songs, and stories behind the biggest American hard-rock band of the early 1970s.
