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“The secret wasn’t a special effect, a particular amp, or studio trickery, but rather a very simple quirk”: Roy Buchanan inspired countless players, including Jeff Beck, to pick up Telecasters – his favorite Tele was defined by a fascinating tonal “flaw”

Nicknamed “Nancy”, the Telemaster’s beloved ’53 model had a bridge pickup that mystified pickup designers for years

Guitar World · Aug 29

“He was known as the best guitar player in town... He actually gave me a little tip": Brian Fallon on the Roy Buchanan trick that Bruce Springsteen taught him on guitar

The Gaslight Anthem frontman assures us the Boss “can really rip” on guitar and taught him how to play pinched harmonics just like Roy Buchanan and Eric Clapton

MusicRadar · Aug 26

“If James Burton recorded that song one more time, it would not have sounded the same. They caught lightning in a bottle”: An all-star guitar panel choose their Telecaster Mount Rushmore – its greatest players, their greatest tracks

Pros pick their favorite Tele riffs and solos and decide who should be carved into that massive “Telecaster Mount Rushmore” that exists only in our deranged minds

Guitar World · Aug 23

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How to find new approaches to blues soloing – using fingerstyle improv ideas and Roy Buchanan-inspired licks

Jim Oblon takes an eight-bar rhythm and applies some fingerpicking ideas that could help get you out of a jam and put you right in the jam

Guitar World · Mar 31, 2025

4 Analysts Assess Enanta Pharma: What You Need To Know

In the last three months, 4 analysts have published ratings on Enanta Pharma (NASDAQ:ENTA), offering a diverse range of perspectives from bullish to bearish.

Benzinga · Nov 26, 2024

"The reason I never made it big is because I never cared whether I made it big or not": The life and death of the guitarist’s guitarist, Roy Buchanan

Roy Buchanan inspired Jeff Beck, Gary Moore and Joe Bonamassa, but suffered a life of addiction and died a bluesman’s death

Louder · Aug 14, 2024

"His experimentation with the physicality and tonal possibilities of the electric guitar seemingly knew no bound": 5 songs you need to hear by Jeff Beck

The guitar player's guitar hero has a discography and a bag of six-string tricks like no other

MusicRadar · Jun 24, 2024

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“I don’t know what it is about my Tele, but it’s special. Roy Buchanan tried it and wanted to buy it! I said, ‘No way in hell I’m giving that up’”: Russell Javors on his wild ride with Billy Joel – and his friendship with Les Paul after he was let go

Billy Joel’s former right-hand man had given up on music until he accidentally reconnected with his old colleagues – so what does he think of the suggestion that their Lords of 52nd Street group are better than Joel’s current band?

Guitar World · Mar 6, 2024

“Playing with Bob Dylan was like entering The Twilight Zone of music. You thought, ‘They’re going to wake me up tomorrow because all of this is impossible’”: Robbie Robertson reflects on his remarkable career and the end of the Band

In his final Guitar World interview, the late guitar legend shares his earliest guitar influences, what it was like to get booed onstage with Dylan and why the Band’s final days were so heartbreaking

Guitar World · Aug 10, 2023

Blues guitar techniques you can learn from Telecaster master Roy Buchanan

Take a deep dive into the style of one of the best players to have ever picked up a Telecaster, in a lesson that will whip your hybrid picking chops into shape in no time

Guitar World · May 31, 2023

Watch Lonnie Mack, one of the original Flying V masters, trade licks with Tele titans Albert Collins and Roy Buchanan

The three six-string aces came together for the aptly named American Guitar Heroes concert at Carnegie Hall in 1985

Guitar World · Apr 26, 2023

Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 347

All of the videos, backing tracks and audio from issue 347 of Guitar Techniques, to download and stream

Guitar World · Mar 31, 2023

How Jeff Beck and Seymour Duncan created humbucker magic with the classic JB pickup

While the classic Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB was never actually a signature pickup, without Jeff it may never have happened…

Guitar World · Mar 31, 2023

Q&A: Mark Wenner looks back on 50 years of The Nighthawks

PITTSBURGH — Mark Wenner discovered the blues while he was in high school in Bethesda, Maryland, and started messing around with harmonica, in part, because of a 1965 recording of “Born in Chicago” by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Tribune News Service · Apr 12, 2022

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