First used by ’50s legends Chet Atkins and Les Paul, it is rock, metal and punk that have made palm muting so popular today ...

From Eddie Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Daniel Ash and Jamie West-Oram, we cover the gamut of the decade's greatest players across the genres ...

makes the same mistake twice—a bit of tongue-in-cheek guitar advice he once told Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler. When Chet Atkins began playing “Yankee Doodle Dixie” in the 1930s ...

Eagles guitarist Don Felder had a pretty hilarious response to receiving what would become his iconic Gibson double neck guitar.

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, TOMMY EMMANUEL has released the single “Secret Love” from his upcoming album LIVE AT THE SYDNEY ...

Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer has revealed he has an autoimmune disease that has left him unable to play guitar.

One thing you won’t find on this Phoenix band's new record is the slightest indication that the kid supplying all those tasty lead-guitar licks on a hollow-body Gretsch Chet Atkins model of the ...

Janis Ian will make her final public performance – at least for now – at RiverSong Music Festival this weekend. Ian, a living musical legend in real life and RiverSong’s Living ...

Having a noted guitar-playing father (swing specialist Bucky ... inspired to take up the instrument after seeing country star Chet Atkins on TV. Precociously talented, he was mentored by jazz ...