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Bonnie Raitt: Fifty Years of Slide
A bottleneck player who carried the blues into the pop charts and is still winning awards for it — the documented arc of one of slide guitar's great interpreters.
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Guitarists and string players profiled through what they actually do: right-hand attack, tunings, gear choices, and the sound they became known for.
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Michael Hedges: Two Hands, One Acoustic
The player who treated the steel-string acoustic as a full percussion-and-melody instrument — two-handed tapping, slap harmonics, and tunings that rewired what a solo guitar performance could be.
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Bert Jansch: The Player's Player of Folk
A Glasgow-born guitarist who merged blues, jazz, and Celtic forms on a borrowed acoustic — and became the musician other guitarists name when asked about influence.
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Brian May: The Red Special, From Scratch
A homemade guitar built from a fireplace by a father and son in 1960s London carried one of the biggest rock bands in history — and the design decisions still hold lessons.
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St. Vincent: Designing a Guitar of Her Own
Annie Clark built an art-rock catalog on disciplined, effects-aware playing — then sat down with a manufacturer and specified a signature guitar built around her own ergonomics.
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Chet Atkins: How One Thumb Built Nashville
A self-taught Tennessean with a thumb pick and a producer's ear shaped both the sound of country guitar and the records that carried it.