How a gift of thanks from one Yardbird alumnus to another turned a guitar into a bona-fide icon ...

The Blue Note jazz legend checks in to pay tribute to the original mass produced electric guitar – the guitar that trends and ...

This year Fender is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster, and Nashville was chosen to host the Tele Town birthday party. I arrive in Nashville from Perth after three flights and around ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew Leimkuehler is a music journalist from Nashville, Tennessee. When someone steps on stage to play country music, the first ...

The Fender Stratocaster is widely-considered to be one of the most iconic electric guitars of all time, having been used by legends like Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Harrison, just to ...

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Few guitars carry more historical weight than the Fender Telecaster. With its compact body and brash, incisive twang, the Telecaster—first introduced by Fender in the 1950s—played a pivotal role in ...

Despite garnering unflattering nicknames like "the snow shovel," "the boat paddle," and "the plank" for its simplicity and no-fuss design when it was introduced to the public in 1951, the Fender ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Telecaster bears the serial number 0942. “It could be the first Telecaster ever made with the ...