All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like ...

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, most explicitly—but rock and roll’s got a serious solo deficiency going on.

Some guitar solos are more than just musical moments, they are the sounds that defined generations and influenced millions of musicians around the world. In this video we explore twenty of the ...

You can count on one hand — actually, one finger — how many bands are out there wearing Mexican wrestling masks. And they’ve been doing it for 30 years. Los Straitjackets are, in other words, a band ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

We begin our series with a guitarist on Elvis' version, Scotty Moore. He played with Elvis from 1954 to 1964. He reunited with Elvis for his 1968 comeback special. As Peter Guralnick, the author of ...

Let's get back to my 1997 interview with Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's guitarist from 1954 to '64. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR CONTENT) GROSS: What would you say is your most copied guitar solo from ...

This is FRESH AIR. I am Terry Gross. It's a FRESH AIR tradition that the week leading into Labor Day, we do a themed series of interviews from our archive. This week's theme is R&B, rockabilly and ...

Moore, who died in 2016, booked gigs for Presley during the early part of the musician's career and later penned the memoir, That's Alright, Elvis. He spoke in 1997 about recording "Blue Suede Shoes." ...