National Style 3 Hawaiian
Metal-bodied guitars built by the National String Instrument Company before World War II represent a giant leap in guitar design and technology. When they...
Classics: June 2022
Like the engineers and musicians who, in the ’60s and ’70s, helped create legendary songs at FAME Studios and its offshoot, Muscle Shoals Sound,...
Dwight Twilley’s ’57 Fender Super
Plenty of vintage amps have made it into these pages on their own merits. But when a hallowed creation also has a fun artist-related...
1982 Gibson Victory Custom
When you consider their status as a last-gasp instrument made by Gibson in its waning days as a property of Norlin Industries, the ironically...
John Sebastian & Arlen Roth
In the ’60s, the Lovin’ Spoonful boasted one of the most impressive song catalogs in rock and roll. During the age of psychedelia and...
Jim Lauderdale’s honkey-tonk toe-dip
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Singer/Songwriter’s Stylistic Twist
Jim Lauderdale paid a visit to one of his favorite Nashville hangs and grabbed a gorgeous 1940 Martin D-28 to play...
Soul-jazz legend Calvin Keys
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Exclusive spin on “Six to Seven”
Calvin Keys has worked with Jimmy Smith, Ahmad Jamal, and Ray Charles. Here, he and his ’72 Gibson...
Gibson Humbucker
Gibson and Fender may be the longstanding heavyweight rivals of the electric guitar game, but they have one very important thing in common: they...
Dan’s Guitar RX: Mending Chuck Panozzo’s 1960 ES-125
Like you, I got a kick out of the February “Classics” feature on Chuck Panozzo being reunited with his Gibson ES-125TC, which had suffered...
Ro-Pat-In’s First Electric Spanish
The story of George Beauchamp's invention of what would become the first commercially successful electric guitar is shrouded in the mist of murky memory....