I remember hearing Jimi Hendrix for the first time. I was around 10, and it was before I started playing guitar, and he blew my hair back. I thought: What is this fire, and how can I lunge into it?

Christian McBride, Endea Owens, Large Professor and more writers and musicians share favorite tracks from the bass maestro, who turned 89 this week.

Sir Paul McCartney, 83, has lived a life that’s full of music, from listening to his father James play dancehall songs on the ...

Today, we look back through interviews with Eric Clapton, Jim McCarty and Keith Relf to understand the reasons why Clapton ...

Ahead of their tour with Carlos Santana, Doobie Brothers guitarists Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons, and John McFee revisit ...

ZZ Top have recorded some great blues songs over the years – none of them better than the one on which Billy Gibbons played a Stratocaster gifted to him by the most revered guitarist of them all. It ...

Recorded in the wake of The Beatles's messy breakup, Paul McCartney reveals the improbable story behind his second - and ...

Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue has several colourful origin stories. One begins in the early ’70s, in the backyard of ...

Originally published in Uncut, June 2007. Originally published in Uncut, June 2007. “It’s impossible,” says Paul McCartney, “as all bands ever since have found.” So why did he give up sheep-shearing ...

From Gould to Michie Mee to Mary Margaret O'Hara to Leonard Cohen to Eric's Trip, we spent hours compiling a list of Canadian debuts that stand up to the test of the 25 best ever.

Guitarist magazine's editor-in-chief Jamie Dickson, former editor Neville Marten and Claire Tole-Moir from Bonhams talk about Gary Moore's Gibson Les Paul - nicknamed 'Stripe' - on stage at The Gibson ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of a glorious six-string explosion — a long, twisted, ...