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

Most of the time, Atkins held a bassline down with a thumb pick on the low ... of tongue-in-cheek guitar advice he once told Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler. When Chet Atkins began playing ...

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 ...

Changing your guitar pick is the most direct way to change your tone ... Travis picking works especially well with a ...

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

Beatles for Sale hints at the groundbreaking albums to come. But before they moved on, they’d revisit their formative years in Liverpool and their love of country music. In hindsight, Beatles for Sale ...

Janis Ian will make her final public performance – at least for now – at RiverSong Music Festival this weekend. Ian, a living musical legend in real life and RiverSong’s Living ...

Van Eps designed his own seven-string guitar, which added lower bass notes and allowed him to develop his own finger-picking style ... and was a hit for Chet Atkins and later, in 1964, The ...

But once Chet Atkins ... the country picking on “Clap” and the Spaciness of “Wurm.” And that’s just one side of his first Yes album. As the man who brought the electric guitar forward ...

Since returning from a nearly three-month absence due to injury, Chet Holmgren has elevated the Oklahoma City Thunder in a big way. As OKC continues to hold the best record in the NBA, the team is ...