Gordon Lightfoot was a well-known songwriter in the mid 1960s but in 1970 he became a household name with the release of *If You Could Read My Mind*. It features a gentle, rolling arpeggio fingerpicking ...
The Stray Cats came on the scene in the early 1980s with a sound that was more 1950s and brought new life to the Rockabilly style that was so popular then.
We have had the rhythm guitar parts to *Year Of The Cat*available for some time but we now have added new videos going over the lead sections to this great song by Al Stewart.
Many songs of the 80s were driven by keyboard riffs and a synthesized, electronic rhythm feel.
A popular sound of the 1960s came to be known as Surf Music.
The Martin Guitar Company has been building some of the best instruments in the world for almost 200 years.
The late 1980s brought us a one-hit-wonder out of Liverpool, The La’s.
The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan is still world-famous for its musical instruments. In the early part of the 20th century they were more famous for their mandolins than their guitars, especially when Lloyd ...
Poison was one of the glam/hair metal bands of the 80s who had their biggest hit with the power ballad *Every Rose Has Its Thorn*.
Our friend Mandolin Mike Mullins visited George Gruhn's Guitar Shop in Nashville, Tennessee.