Just in time for a new Netflix doc, GW sits down with Norman Harris – owner of Tarzana, California’s iconic Norman’s Rare Guitars – to discuss 50 years of sales, his kinship with Joe Bonamassa, and wh ...

With school work and sports, sometimes it's hard to find the time. The Hawaiian steel guitar became a cultural force in America at the turn of the century, popularized by troupes of traveling ...

April White - Author, The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier In 1969, the New York Times described Joe Cocker’s air guitar as “unusual ...

By now, Gibson was the market leader among American guitar makers. At the end of ’35, the Kalamazoo firm introduced the EH-150 steel and amp set, its first foray into electric instruments.

Eddie Van Halen recently donated his custom-made guitar named Frankenstein 2 to the National Museum of American History. Clay Patrick McBride / Contour by Getty Images Recently, guitarist Eddie ...

Credit: Derick A. Thomas/Dat's Jazz/Corbis/Getty Images Though not a financial blockbuster, the 1986 film Crossroads is a true centerpiece of '80s guitar culture. Macchio's Eugene plays at ...

Alternative rock bands in the 1990s shunned the idea of being rock stars, but many became alt-rock guitar heroes nonetheless.

Eventually the American guitar manufacturers threatened to take ... craftsmen and manufacturers change their product to follow cultural trends. In the case of the Suzuki company, first from ...