South Carolina Public Radio

Rapp on Jazz: Steely Dan and jazz

Steely Dan is a perfect example of how jazz shapes rock music. From the 1970s onward, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker infused ...
The GazetteOpinion

Music from life’s soundtrack in major and minor chords

I miss my piano. For decades, a 1944 baby grand piano sat gloriously in the corner of my living room, and now that spot is ...

Jacob Collier taught me how to play his 5-string guitar – but I learned so much more than just new shapes and tunings

Collier never learned on a six-string. Instead, he cut his teeth on a four-string tenor guitar. Then he had the audacity to ...

The nylon-string guitar riff that has taken TikTok by storm – and been covered by John Mayer

Filmed in a field in Southern Indiana, a video of singer/songwriter Hudson Freeman's off-the-cuff performance of his song, If You Know Me, has racked up 1.5 million views, and caught the attention of ...
American Songwriter

3 Guitar Solos From the 1970s That Likely Made You Ask Yourself “How Is That Even Possible?”

To this day, these three guitar solos from the 1970s leave fans scratching their heads and drooling at the mouth.
CU Independent

Anatomy of a Six-String Storyteller: A Creative Exploration of the Guitar’s Hidden World

A guitar is much more than a set of strings being dragged over a piece of timber. It is a narrator–a tool which could whisper ...