Four years ago, local musician Barry Huebner had an idea to have Dallasites wield guitars in public. In a tongue-in-cheek protest of Texas’ open-carry gun laws, he called it an Open Carry Guitar Rally ...

Nearly 70 years later, workers still making the famous instruments by hand. — -- From Bruce Springsteen and The Police to Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, the Fender guitar has graced many a ...

Past the pants, shirts and other clothes hanging up. Way to the back of his master bedroom walk-in closet, Robert Sharpe set up a nifty little guitar workshop. There, atop a wooden bench, Sharpe ...

Noveller is the solo project of Sarah Lipstate, who had previously been in an experimental rock band from Austin called One Umbrella before she moved to Brooklyn to pursue music more fully. Upon ...

Three months into quarantine, I got my father’s old guitar down from the attic. After I cleaned and polished it and put on new strings, I was impressed: The dusty wood transformed into a sleek brown ...

“The hard thing with the acoustic guitar is to not get too repetitive,” says guitarist Andy McKee from his home in Topeka, Kansas. “It’s hard to write new music that doesn’t sound like everything else ...

The big-scale music festival scene has been undergoing a digital change over recent years. Guitar-driven headliners, the mainstay for decades, are increasingly being replaced by guys playing EDM on ...

After hearing two choruses of Charlie Christian’s solo on Benny Goodman’s “Grand Slam” in a record store, a thirteen-year old Jim Hall had a spiritual awakening of sorts. “That’s what I wanted to do,” ...

It was another summer Saturday night in the Old City. The sun shined late, as it will this time of year, drawing the afternoon out well into the early evening. The dinner crowd slowly gave way to the ...

Marin County has been home to some great guitarists — Jerry Garcia, Carlos Santana, Mike Bloomfield, John Cipollina. Fill in your own favorite. While you’re at it, I’m adding a new name to my personal ...