Maybe it’s all the bending and vibrato, and the associated pain that comes with steel-string manipulation, but there is something deeper about the connection between the blues player and their guitar.
Les Paul and his wife, Mary Ford, perform with their guitars in this 1951 file photo. Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the solid-body electric guitar and ...
For most guitarists, the idea of being invited to design and build a signature model to their own exacting specifications by a world-class manufacturer is purely the stuff of daydreams. For plenty of ...
The 1954 Les Paul Gibson guitar known as "Black Beauty" has sold at auction for $335,500. Guernsey's auction house says the six-string instrument with gold-plated hardware set the standard for other ...
Epiphone’s much anticipated new Jared James Nichols signature guitar is officially here and available to buy and the Blues Power Les Paul Custom is as handsome a single-pickup singlecut as you’ll see.
Jimmy Page has had a significant impact on rock and roll music. As the co-founder of Led Zeppelin, Page is also responsible for a variety of famous guitar riffs when he worked as a session musician, ...
UPDATE: After revealing his intent to restore one of the first ever Les Paul guitars destroyed in a tornado, guitarist Jared James Nichols now has that process finally complete. In an Instagram post ...
The seventies were bountiful years for guitar fans. Looking now at Guitar Player magazines of the period, it's almost dizzying to see how many veteran guitarists were doing some of their most ...
Among the many, many inventions of Les Paul, who single-handedly changed the sound of popular music with the solid body electric guitar and multitrack recording, was something called the multiplier.
Guitar legend Les Paul plays at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York in February 2007. ((Colin Archer/Associated Press)) Guitar legend Les Paul has died of complications from pneumonia, his family ...
The 1954 electric guitar that served as the prototype for Gibson's iconic Les Paul models is going on the auction block. The Paul-designed guitar known as "Black Beauty" features gold-plated hardware.