When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images After bursting onto the British music scene in 1967 as frontman for Welsh ...

Here’s a thought experiment. Picture the scene: Eric Clapton calls, he needs you as his sideman, which electric guitars from your collection do you take? For context, this is the early ‘90s. We’re in ...

Ry Cooder once likened his playing – a sublime amalgam of American folk and blues, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, the Tex-Mex zest of conjunto and the regal sensuality of Afro-Cuban son – as “some kind of ...