Bonnie Raitt says you can’t change the noodle, only the sauce. Here is how her unschooled slide guitar and risk taking can reboot your own playing.

Inside the Farm Aid meltdown, the brutal Civil War sessions, the lawsuit and Steven Adler’s short, emotional return to the Guns N’ Roses drum stool.

How Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown turned electric guitar into a horn, using bare fingers, big band phrasing, and a ruthless ear for blues clichés.

How a teenage punk drummer secretly fell in love with Neil Young’s Decade, why Grohl calls him the ‘Godfather of grunge’, and how the crush shaped the Foo Fighters.

A single photo of Les Paul holding a nameless Fender Nocaster hides a wild truth – he nearly put his name on a Fender instead of inventing Gibson’s icon.

Chicago fused rock, jazz and pop, survived tragedy and power-ballad backlash, and became America’s stealth supergroup. Here’s how their story really unfolds.

On Stevie Ray Vaughan’s last nights alive, Eric Clapton was not the guitar god on top – he was the stunned witness. Here is what Clapton actually thought.

Jeff Beck loved both the Les Paul and the Stratocaster, but Hendrix pushed him one way. Here is what his choice really says about tone, gear and creativity.

Mick Taylor walked away from the greatest rock gig on earth in 1974. Ego, heroin, credits, Keith Richards – or something deeper? Here is the real story.

Eric Clapton heard The Band’s Music From Big Pink and decided Cream was finished. Here is how their quiet, rural sound rewired rock’s idea of rebellion.