ZZ Top have recorded some great blues songs over the years – none of them better than the one on which Billy Gibbons played a Stratocaster gifted to him by the most revered guitarist of them all. It ...

It’s an image that has become synonymous with the explosion of 1960s counter-culture; guitar demigod Jimi Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. Hendrix's ...

Guitarists in the 1960s rewrote the rules—technically, culturally, and sonically. Fueled by the British blues revival and American counterculture, icons like Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, and Jeff ...

One could spend years, maybe even decades, learning about how vital Jimi Hendrix was to the evolution of rock guitar. There’s a library worth of books about the man’s life, his art and the tragedy of ...

Jimi Hendrix, the world-famous electric guitarist whose innovative style forever shaped the rock-music landscape, was posthumously honored with a Washington state Medal of Merit at the Capitol on ...

Florry started out as a bedroom solo project from Philadelphia indie rocker Francie Medosch, but it evolved into a twangy, countrified full-band situation in time for the release of 2023’s The Holey ...

Every world famous artist had to start somewhere. For Jimi Hendrix, that somewhere was Seattle where he started his six-string journey with an old ukulele. As the story goes, a teenage Hendrix was ...

The greatest guitar event of the year is coming to Columbus. A multiartist celebration of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix featuring five top guitarists will set out for the nation's Midwest, East Coast and ...

Guitar World's resident Jimi Hendrix authority, Andy Aledort, demonstrates how the legendary, groundbreaking guitarist still influences the modern rock, blues and R&B styles some most admired players.

One of Jimi Hendrix’s favorite guitar players was none other than blues legend B.B. King. But in all honesty, few guitarists who blew up around the time Hendrix did would not cite B.B. King as an ...

Jimi Hendrix was many things—a talented musician, an experimental artist, a style icon, an activist, a philosopher. But those who knew him well saw another side of him. Hendrix, who died in 1970 at ...

NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — A street in New York City’s Greenwich Village is now named after Jimi Hendrix. A stretch of West 8th Street is now known as Jimi Hendrix Way. The sign stands outside of ...