List of famous guitarists born who were born in Texas, listed alphabetically with photos when available. Many of these guitar players from Texas are legends ...
My mom and dad then put me on the show Star Search. I got a Hummingbird guitar that year that was bigger than I was. I didn’t really learn to play until I was twelve when I taught myself a few chords after I won a poetry contest and tried to put my poems to music. That was...
And every December, I would realize that I had gained more weight and was still limited to plinking out the same feeble chords on my guitar. When I took up the banjo last year, it was my way of starting over. I am absolutely certain that one of the biggest reasons - if not the ...
Every New Year's Eve, my annual resolution included getting in shape and learning to play a musical instrument. And every December, I would realize that I had gained more weight and was still limited to plinking out the same feeble chords on my guitar. When I took up the banjo last yea...
” One was Natalie, a descendant of Lubbock music royalty. Her great-uncle had taught Buddy Holly some of his first guitar chords, and her father, Lloyd Maines, was a sought-after steel guitarist and producer in Texas. He’d worked with the Chicks and given them a CD of Natalie singing...
Inside was a guitar that looked exactly like the one in my hand. “I had them make one for each of us,” he said. On the sofa, he started playing those T-Bone Walker chords he had shown me that first night we met, when I was thirteen. He nodded for me to take a solo. I ...
The result is a fusion of a haunting love ballad and the murky and brooding guitar chords that imbue the Seattle sound. And it works. “What we came up with was pretty straight-ahead,” Novoselic tells me afterward. “Randall wanted to do something really weird, but we didn’t have ...
“When I first heard Django, I realized he was where a lot of things I had learned up to that point had come from, like western swing,” Willie says. “Johnny Gimble and all the other great fiddle players were jazz players and knew who Django was. All the guitar players knew who Dja...
” One was Natalie, a descendant of Lubbock music royalty. Her great-uncle had taught Buddy Holly some of his first guitar chords, and her father, Lloyd Maines, was a sought-after steel guitarist and producer in Texas. He’d worked with the Chicks and given them a CD of Natalie singing...