That has coincided with a drop in sales of current guitar music, sparking debate about the supposed "death of rock".
It's time we start thinking of African guitar music as a genre unto itself.
But by the time he went back, hoping to record groups like this in the late eighties, Mobutu was gone, Christian Evangelists had cornered the funeral music market, and Kinshasa was full of slick guitar bands playing amorous pop music.
For me, the biggest discovery in learning to play guitar was the joy of making my own music.
Between her roots in classical piano and her jazz-guitar education at the Berklee College of Music, it would be easy for Larkin to fall back on technical prowess and ability to experiment with instruments such as the "baribow" (a baritone guitar played with a violin bow).
The warmth and clarity of the guitar's plucked string sound allows this music to seem relaxed and complicated at the same time.
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This eclectic mix of delicate acoustic guitar and harder distortion makes Doiron's music richer and multi-faceted.
He started taking guitar lessons at the age of 8, but classical music "wasn't for me, " Lerche says.
One of my favorites was his reflection from 1970 where he felt compelled to write a music review of a 24-year-old guitar-slinging postman named John Prine.
The company that owns the rights to Jimi Hendrix's music has responded to reports that a biopic of the guitar legend will shortly begin shooting.
Electronic Arts' Guitar Hero spinoff (created by Harmonix, the original makers of Guitar Hero), Rock Band is a great big, expensive music videogame that will take up serious room in your house.
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins heard the new sound, propelled by bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell, and went back to the woodshed to retool his music, excising the piano and guitar and featuring the work of trumpeter Don Cherry, Ornette's perennial sidekick.
Be sure to listen for the cell phone interfering with the guitar amp at the end, and add that image to a piece of music that begs for visuals.
Watson, who died on Tuesday at age 89, is most closely associated with the melodic style of flatpicking that cemented the guitar's role as a solo voice in bluegrass and acoustic country music.
Furthermore, the device can sometimes be a nuisance depending on the placement of a guitar's input jack, not to mention dealing will two audio cords for headphones and a music source.
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When boy bands hit the buffers, record companies looked for a fresh type of group - and came up with guitar-wielding pop stars, according to Simon Warner, lecturer in pop music at Leeds University.
On tour behind "In Guards We Trust, " one of the year's best albums, the New York group Guards muscled up, its live music less textured but no less appealing as a synth growled in the midrange along with washes of guitar feedback.
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