The Lansing, Michigan-born bluegrass player Billy Strings (born William Apostol) is one of the most important people in music ...

I believe that almost every guitar you pick has a song in there, even if it's one I've never used. I've used that six-string bass a lot, but that's the only song I've ever written around it.

Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

evolving into the six-string version we know today in the late 1600s. Anton Stradivari, the famous violin-maker, also had a hand in making guitars. There's now only one Stradivarius guitar left in ...