Many great rock songs begin on an acoustic guitar. Before the expensive productions and string sections, songwriters often used only a voice and an acoustic guitar (or piano) to excavate a tune out of ...

Sometimes, a solid rock song just needs to have its production stripped down and its instrumentation broken down into basic parts to really shine. Plenty of rock stars have performed “unplugged” ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

There was a time when the guitar was more of a background instrument in a pop music ensemble. In the early part of the 20th century, pianos and saxes were more likely to stand out as the showy lead ...

Here are five acoustic songs that are still hard and heavy, chosen by three-piece rock band Of Limbo. The trio recently dropped their latest LP, Unplugged. It's a nine-track release featuring covers ...