Growing up in New York, Marc Stone was struck by the sound of the slide guitar at a young age. His uncle gave him a Muddy Waters album. His mother and stepfather were big fans of the Allman Brothers' ...

It’s hard to imagine George Harrison without hearing his impeccable slide guitar work. George started playing slide guitar just before The Beatles broke up. The style gave him a fresh sound, and he ...

If you played guitar in The Beatles, you had competition. George Harrison, the lead guitarist throughout the Fab Four’s run, didn’t always get to take the solos on the group’s records. At times, the ...

This month marks the centennial of the birth of Elmore James, the king of the electric slide guitar. Though he’s not as well known as some of his fellow Chicago blues musicians, his influence not only ...

When the Vermont-born musician introduces himself as Joel Veena, one may think he plays the veena and hence the surname. So when Joel ‘Veena’ Eisenkramer goes o ...