Known as the master of the Telecaster, the Texas guitarist made his name with a string of 60s singles that featured stinging solos and “icy” song titles. He revisited those days with a 90s comeback album; the title tune finds his powers intact and gives him more time to solo than the...
You Can Be A Wesley made some waves this past year with the release of Heard Like Us, a mélange of clean, crisp Telecaster licks, peppery percussion, and otherworldly vocals woven together into sweet and bracing indie rock compositions. Comparisons were thrown out likening the Boston-based qua...
Bill Kirchen, known today as “The Titan of the Telecaster,” was an Ann Arbor, Mich., high-schooler and budding folk banjo and guitar player who turned 17 years old four days after seeing Dylan at Newport in 1965. He was a founding member of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen ...
“Leo Fender had no idea what he was making for the man who really knows how to play the Telecaster.” Burton became so inextricably linked with that guitar model that when Fender introduced its first “signature” Telecaster in 1990, it bore Burton’s name. Burton...
re gonna go have a beer at the local Holiday Inn basement. We go in there and get beers when this guy shows up with a Telecaster and this crappy old amp. He sits down on the amp. There’s no stage. He starts playing and it’s incredible what comes out. It’s this Chet Atkins ...