Upgrading your pickups is one of the lowest-cost ways to significantly improve the sound of your Telecaster, without resorting to buying an entirely new guitar. As one of the most versatile guitars ...

When I was playing around with my Dad’s guitar when I was a kid, I discovered you could “snap” the strings by pulling up on them to get a sound like a chicken “talking.” You know, like ...

Since achieving liftoff as a founding member of Commander Cody’s Lost Planet Airmen back in the late 1960s, guitarist Bill Kirchen has been making his own brand of music, flattening the boundaries ...

It’s virtually impossible to think about country music without thinking of guitars. The guitar is essentially the logo of country music. Even more so than in rock music, the guitar has been on every ...

So you want to play country guitar, what do you need? Well, let’s be real, a cowboy hat and boots is pretty much a sartorial non-negotiable. More fundamentally, the Telecaster is the industry standard ...