May also cited Jeff Beck as a guitarist who changed his thinking about guitar playing in his most formative years ...

Brother of acclaimed guitarist Syl Johnson, the late Jimmy Johnson was a singular player who was a mainstay of his city's ...

Epiphone just launched this new Inspired by Gibson Custom 1962 ES-335 Reissue, and I had the fortune to try one out. Read all ...

It was only just last month that EVH Gear rolled out the Wolfgang Standard with a TOM-style bridge, presenting us with a mid-priced and highly shreddable electric guitar for players ... those you see ...

On a track such as No Surrender, you’ll find that there are some wide-open spaces where the electric guitar backs off completely ... Perhaps it is because Shiner often plays a Gibson BB King Lucille ...

Earheart played with Hank Williams Jr.'s Bama Band for over 20 years and contributed to recordings and performances by artists like Al Green and B.B. King ... steel guitar and other stringed ...

Railbird’s pivot to a more pop-country crowd in 2025 conjured up a fun, but distinctly different vibe around the festival ...

Also on the Main Stage that day is R&B and Gospel singer Mavis Staples, who’ll perform right before Teddy Swims. And at about 5 p.m., Blues singer Christone “Kingfish” Ingram will perform at the Main ...

In “Regal Blues,” he paid homage to one of his heroes, B.B. King, and honored King’s guitar Lucille: “When I first heard Lucille/ You know it knocked me out/ Went out and bought me a ...

The MG’s – keyboardist Booker T. Jones, guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn, and drummer Al Jackson ...

In 1912, WC Handy published “Memphis Blues,” which, ironically, is not a blues song, but an instrumental cakewalk; Handy’s tune was the ... influence a young BB King, who was a big fan.