Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Felton W. Williams Jr. was born on January 3, 1934, in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1943 his family moved to Detroit, where ...

Ken Emerson will perform Sept. 24 as part of George Kahumoku Jr.’s “Slack Key Show” at the Napili Kai Beach Resort. Courtesy photo Back in the early 1980s you could find Grammy-winning guitarist Ken ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

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When it comes to doing July Fourth right, you can’t go wrong by choosing an American Original. And that is exactly what Taos is delivering by inviting Junior Brown to play at its Fourth of July ...

Guitars are everywhere. If you don’t play one, then chances are you’ve at least heard a one – on the radio, on the street corner, in a park on a summer afternoon, at your cousin’s wedding, on open mic ...

How is it that a tiny guitar amp with origins that date back 76 years is still considered a monster tone machine today? It’s because Fender got so much right with the humble Champ combo from the start ...

Clad in stainless steel, the watch comes in the model’s familiar “lunette” shape with mounted buttons that cater to functions such as the 8-lap memory, chronograph, calendar, timer and alarm, complete ...

Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...

KAILUA, Hawaii — Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning ...