When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Conventional wisdom dictates that a well-written song will stand up even ...

The next big name in acoustic guitar may be a mononym. Marcin, as he is known, is just 23, but he’s already on track to break into the mainstream in the same way as his acoustic predecessors Paco de ...

More than any other instrument, guitars remain the weapon of choice for exhibitionists, extroverts and showboats. With their fretboards facing outward toward the audience, guitar players are those ...

For jazz guitar master Larry Coryell, if one guitar makes beautiful music, five guitars can do it five times more beautifully. That’s why, for his debut performance at the Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest ...

As a Guitar World reader, you’re likely to be well-versed in the annals of guitar god history. Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Randy Rhoads… the list of players who have become ...

John McLaughlin isn’t always mentioned in lists of the greatest-ever guitar players. But of course he should be. McLaughlin is more of a guitarist’s guitar player, meaning that those in the game know, ...

Alexandra Whittingham and Sönke Meinen can thank their dear old dads for turning them onto playing guitar. If there’s an instrument laying around the house most kids will naturally pick it up and ...

When I started playing guitar long ago, yes, I’m seasoned; affordable guitars were undoubtedly cheap, but most were hot garbage. I recall purchasing a Takamine dreadnaught acoustic in the early ’90s ...