The jangly, chiming sound of acoustic and electric 12-string guitars have played a crucial role in popular music, from blues to rock, pop to folk. 12-string guitars feature six pairs of strings, known ...

“Anything that Leo Kottke ever recorded is one of my top 12 solos. Ah, man, he’s [ whistles ]. He’s very tough and unique, and I love him. John Fahey and Bert Jansch are good, too, but nobody can ...

A North Texas guitarist recently set his sights on producing what he believes to be the first complete recording of an ...

Gretsch packs the legendary studio magic of Abbey Road into a guitar that's also pleasantly playable, and competitively ...

In 2023, as Swift's Eras Tour barreled toward Nashville, three Swifties working inside then-Mayor John Cooper's office saw ...

A hundred years ago, pianos were a fixture in many American homes. More than 300,000 of them were sold in 1925, but today the ...

When "Trigger" is done, Willie Nelson is done. There may not be a more famous guitar in the music world than Willie Nelson’s trusty Trigger. The living country music legend has played the same Martin ...

CES 2026 is here. Think of CES like a harbinger of what’s next in technology. Every January, the industry descends upon Las ...

A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” Huntrix’s “Golden” and Taylor Swift ’s “The Fate of ...

Iowa duo Kathryn Severing Fox and Chad Elliott have turned a mutual love of songwriting into a hit album and a growing collection of awards and fans.

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Stephen Wilson Jr. has lived many different lives. In case you didn't know, the "I'm A Song" singer hasn't been a singer-songwriter his entire life. At first, he was a boxer – as his father had ...