In the mid-1960s, George met sitar legend Ravi Shankar and immediately began receiving lessons from him. Indian music took hold of George so much that he left his guitar behind. However, George ...

When most museums present an exhibition, you can count on seeingstatic displays of objects, memorabilia and maybe some archivalvideo footage. But not at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad,where a ...

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' ...

Marin is something of a sacred place for Derek Trucks, and not just because he and his wife, singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi and their 12-piece blues band, are headlining Saturday’s Sound Summit ...

Singer, songwriter and slide guitarist Ellen McIlwaine should have been a household name. She played with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Taj Mahal. Internationally renowned DJs like Fatboy Slim sampled ...

Two years after The Beatles parted ways, John Lennon couldn’t help declaring the breakup a success. The way John saw it, the four ex-bandmates had delivered some great solo work — records he preferred ...

In American music, slide guitar (also known as bottleneck guitar) is a technique employed primarily by blues guitarists. It involves the use of a smooth cylinder that can fit over a player's finger, ...

Debashish Bhattacharya is a world-renowned Indian slide guitar virtuoso and designer. He’s a Grammy-nominated artist who has also won a BBC Planet Award for World Music. Bhattacharya prides himself in ...

You've probably never seen or heard an instrument like this. The Hindustani slide guitar is the creation of Debashish Bhattacharya, whose creation pairs his first love — a Hawaiian lap steel guitar, a ...