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The 12-string guitar has brought emotion and colour to the world of music. But what are the most iconic songs to showcase the instrument? Read more here.
Love it or hate it, the guitar solo is one of the pinnacles of rock, and when done right, it's a thing of beauty. These attempts were... less so.
What a month it’s been for Brandi Carlile, building up to the buzziest album release week of her career. For anyone living ...
Prince was a multi-talented, genre-bending music master, whose vocal and musical prowess knew no bounds over a long, varied ...
When he’s not playing lead guitar touring and recording with “Weird Al” Yankovic, Grammy winning musician Jim “Kimo” West pursues his love for Hawaiian slack key guitar. Releasing several acclaimed ...
but she never played a song quite the same way twice. The picking styles and bass runs developed by Cotten before her teens have become standard patterns for folk guitar. For Southern blacks and ...
The British indie icons will head out on their ‘Never/Know’ tour in October with six dates across the UK. They'll kick off at ...
"In two and a half weeks, we recorded 14 songs ... debuted at number three. The band's first release since the departure of frontman Isaac Wood, it trades itchy, off-centre guitar riffs for ...
Fotos Internationl / Getty Images Joe Cocker could feel the music channeling through his body as he began his final number on the Woodstock stage. With one hand, the singer mimed the song’s ...
Oddly enough, American audiences got the song first, in 1964, but without the guitar part. The Stones recorded a version ... knows that there are near countless remixes of this nine-week number one ...