Veteran blues guitarist Tommy Castro has just released a new album, Closer to the Bone, and Houston fans will have an opportunity to hear the fruits of Castro’s labors when he performs at the Heights ...

Speaking to Guitar Player in 1972, the Mountain guitarist laid out his use of "harmonic jumps" and high volume to achieve a ...

While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

With that out of the way: ladies and gentlemen… it’s the best musical performance from all 50 seasons of SNL.

The guitarist was at dinner when the evacuation order for his neighborhood sent him on a mission to save the vintage ...

A thoroughly researched documentary blessed by control freaks who still can’t, or won’t, wrestle with the less flattering ...

A fixture behind the soundboard at Nectar's in Burlington, the surly Russian built a reputation as one of the area's finest ...

It says something about how unfashionable the blues had become at that time ... Trading his acoustic guitar for an electric model with an amplifier – “Couldn’t nobody hear you with ...

The guitarist also shared details of a song he wrote for a Guitar World compilataion CD that ended up on his 1985 solo album ...

Ritchie Blackmore already had a reputation for being a musical firework live, but he wasn't beyond using real pyrotechnics during a show.

One of the best aspects of rock and roll music is that you can get an old guitar form a used shop and plug it into an equally old amp and play loud. Sometimes it's as simple as that. Maybe a neighbor ...