The heart-rending heights of Prince’s most affecting piece of music were conjured largely on the spot, during a now mythical ...

Prince got freaked and cut the set short. The rock stations reported that we got booed off the stage, but that wasn’t true,” he says ...

The Minneapolis Sound is a music genre popularized by Prince and his many side bands ... the 1980s and 1990s with its heavy punk- and rock-guitar solos, hard-driving, funky bass lines, and ...

BC Old Time Fiddlers has been around for 57 years and Jim Dow, 91, a founding member, talks about how Branch No. 1 got ...

Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten was a self-taught musician who played the guitar upside down because she was left-handed. She ...

Recorded in 1982 at famed Sunset Sound ... guitar break in the chorus, and re-recorded the lead vocals. But he left on the band’s backing vocals. Mazarati’s version? Never released. Prince ...

With the Uni-Vibe and other effects, his guitar could sound like the whirling rotor blades ... I’d ever heard an amp produce.” Image Prince performing in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in July ...

Rock music's greatest albums also have great endings. The following classic records feature some of the best closing tracks ...

Is a Syracuse legend the most underrated guitar player of all time ... underrated and overlooked for most of her life. That may sound like a lot of honors for an “underrated” artist, but ...

Five decades into their legendary careers, the Sugarhill Gang performed at Nashville's AB Hillsboro Village, also discussed ...

With more than 50 performances over three days, there were plenty of great sets at RiverBeat in Memphis. Here are some of our ...

Did you and Prince sit around and talk guitars and gear? At this point, he wasn’t a multi-millionaire, so I imagine he didn’t have a ton of guitars yet. “He zeroed in actually on a Hohner Tele. That ...