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 ...

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' ...

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, ...

George Harrison started playing slide guitar after seeing what Eric Clapton and other great guitarists were doing on the instrument in the mid-1960s. His interest in the sitar had taken over for a bit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone who believes that the art of playing electric guitar has been stretched to its limits hasn’t heard the latest album from Sonny Landreth. The Breaux Bridge, La.-based singer-songwriter is one of ...

Bonnie Raitt has dodged the crush of fame that did in the Eagles; she has beaten the devils that snared Warren Zevon, found the third act that eluded Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne, tended to her ...

The Savannah Music Festival has saved one of its best shows for the stretch run: "The World of Slide Guitar" brings four luminaries of the instrument from around the globe to the Lucas Theatre on ...

Debashish Bhattacharya is talking about the role of guru in Indian music. Guru, being a term that has been assimilated into western language and culture, has had, he feels, its meaning diluted and so ...

U Tin, a slide guitarist who became a global ambassador for Burmese music while working as a plumber under a military dictatorship, died on Feb. 5 in Yangon, Myanmar. He was 87. His daughter Daw Win ...