Playing together — Clapton on Brownie, the 1956 Fender Stratocaster he’d purchased in 1967 during his tenure with Cream; Allman with his gold-top 1957 Gibson Les Paul — the two guitarists ...

When the rest of the band kicks in with a one-bar pickup, Oakley fixes on the C# from Gregg Allman's E6/9sus4 chord, before working his way down to the open E string on the downbeat, and the start ...

Dickey Betts, a honky-tonk hell raiser who, as a guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band, traded fiery licks with Duane Allman in the band’s early-1970s heyday, and who went on to write some of ...

“But that's literally the Duane Allman slide, and it's real glass. It's not like the Pyrex thing that people do now. And so I got a free slide with my sweet Jazzmaster.” ...

But when Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender ’s eponymous company released the Fender Stratocaster 70 years ago, it forever changed popular music. Fender, born in 1909, began tinkering with ...