No B-bender, no problem, as the Blackberry Smoke frontman shows us 9 licks for that faux pedal-steel sound ...

AC/DC guitarist Angus Young has always stuck by his opinions. He once labelled a widely influential group "a poor man's Led ...

In this episode, we trace how the electric guitar stepped out of the background and became the driving force of modern popular music. From T-Bone Walker and B.B. King to rock and roll’s first wave of ...

Ritchie Blackmore has more than earned his spot in rock and roll Valhalla, but he thought these artists were far from his ...

Whether it is due to Jim Morrison’s polarizing poetry, the perceived self-indulgence of a twenty-minute synth solo, or the ...

Teachers told her to play the masters instead of writing songs, but she was determined to create the sounds she heard in her ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who once lived in Richmond, shaped the sound of rock 'n' roll. Now, more than 50 years after her death ...

A new box set, 'We Gotta Groove,' looks back at the work the Beach Boys created at Brother studio in 1976 and '77.

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Richard Grenell, the longtime Republican foreign policy adviser who oversaw far reaching changes at the Kennedy Center that ...