Guitarists

The Dead Set, Jim Hoke, Christy Rose and Fats Kaplan, Jason White, Byron House, The Jack Silverman Ordeal. These are some of the bands and … more

You typically don’t hear the lead guitar player in a young rock band name-checking ’60s soul records as major influences, but then Sam Williams of … more

Audley Freed doesn’t have an easy answer or a pithy quote when asked to sum up the philosophy behind his art. He tries to answer … more

Ever heard of a “relic’d” guitar? It’s a guitar that has been taken to with a belt sander, maybe a lit cigarette and some gravel, … more

John Mark Painter lives in a tasteful bungalow near the Five Points community in East Nashville. He’s near multiple coffee shops, an artisan butcher, watering … more

Of all the notable guitar slingers in Guitar Town, Tim Carroll is a rarity: He got his professional start as a punk rocker. While still … more

Turbo Fruits front man Jonas Stein, aka JoNasty, hammers out a series of vicious, distortion-drenched power chords as he struts across the stage at Riverfront … more

Ted Drozdowski is a conjurer. With a burning guitar in his hands, fronting his rocking blues band Scissormen, Drozdowski calls out for the dark, joyous … more

In April of this year, Richie Owens moved his music shop, The Old Time Pickin’ Parlor, from Marathon Village to the small retail space at … more

Sitting on his porch in Inglewood, Keith Gattis recalls the moment when he knew a career in music was what he wanted. It was July … more