The vinyl resurgence has turned jazz and blues reissues into a serious thrill for collectors, and Craft Recordings, Bluesville, and our friend Chad at Acoustic Sounds have been steering the ship. They ...

The rock music world is in mourning following the passing of Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and co-founder of the ...

UCR spoke to Ace Frehley numerous times over the years. Here are some of our favorite Spaceman moments from those ...

The co-founding member of the band was known as the Spaceman and had a hit single of his own in "New York Groove." ...

Luke Combs started playing guitar at 21 after his mother gave him advice about Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney picking up the ...

There’s no “Rosetta Stone of the blues” – but he says doing this will transform the fundamentals of your playing ...

He wrote some of the band’s signature songs, including “Ride My See-Saw” and “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band).” ...

LENOX — One of Bonnie Raitt’s best-known older songs is John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery.” It starts with a line that reflected neither its author nor its singer when it was recorded in 1974 for ...

In 1969, after nearly 14 years of constant gigging in small blues clubs and cutting scorching singles for obscure labels, songs that received limited radio play but were greedily snatched up by young ...

ZZ Top have recorded some great blues songs over the years – none of them better than the one on which Billy Gibbons played a Stratocaster gifted to him by the most revered guitarist of them all. It ...

Hebron resident Glenn Holley is the keeper of a sacred object. It’s a blues guitar. The way he tells it, the guitar carries the same mythic importance as any of those found at the crossroads where ...

Dive into the origins of the electric guitar solo, from its roots in the Mississippi Delta to its early innovations in jazz, blues, and country. Explore the groundbreaking work of legends like Charlie ...