First used by ’50s legends Chet Atkins and Les Paul, it is rock, metal and punk that have made palm muting so popular today ...

From Eddie Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Daniel Ash and Jamie West-Oram, we cover the gamut of the decade's greatest players across the genres ...

Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer has revealed he has an autoimmune disease that has left him unable to play guitar.

Eagles guitarist Don Felder had a pretty hilarious response to receiving what would become his iconic Gibson double neck guitar.

One thing you won’t find on this Phoenix band's new record is the slightest indication that the kid supplying all those tasty lead-guitar licks on a hollow-body Gretsch Chet Atkins model of the ...

Setzer said the effects of his illness became apparent during the Stray Cats' 2024 summer tour, the group's first road stint in five years ...

Check out Chet Atkins to see its potential ... If you’re confident drilling a small pilot hole it’s a quick DIY job, but look ...

The guitar was a 2002 Scotty Moore Gibson Custom Chet Atkins Country Gentleman. Made for and inscribed to Scotty Moore, the 2002 Gibson is a direct link to Elvis. Image courtesy of Bonhams. The ...

Introduced in 1931, the hollow-bodied electric guitar was immediately sought-after ... to take up the instrument after seeing country star Chet Atkins on TV. Precociously talented, he was mentored ...

Though he never played electric guitar, Robert Johnson’s Delta blues ... perform red-hot licks with the best of them. But once Chet Atkins had been there and done that, he devised the more ...

Chet Atkins is one of the most prolific guitarists of the midcentury Nashville country scene, combining elements of jazz and bluegrass to make his guitar sing in a way that most people could only ...