Top 50 Guitar Albums: Full List, Readers Poll Revealed
With Zakk Wylde?s announcement of the Top 10 Guitar Albums, Gibson?s List of the Top 50 Guitar Albums of All Time is complete. Below is the full rundown, from 1 to 50. (For an in-depth look at the previous entries click here for #50-41, #40-31, #30-21, #20-11 and #10-1.
What Were They Thinking? (An Angry Reader?s Guide to Gibson.com?s Top 50 Guitar Albums of All Time)
There are so many great guitar albums (and such a wide variety of ideas of what makes a great guitar album) that there was no way every classic was going to find its way onto Gibson.com?s Top 50 Guitar Albums of All Time. We already anticipated that some great albums would miss the list, not that it should make you feel any better.
Gibson.com?s Top 10 Guitar Albums of All Time with Zakk Wylde
If you?re a music fan, you?ve probably seen countless lists ranking the best albums in rock and roll history. But what about the albums that highlight rock?s greatest instrument: that six-stringed portable orchestra, the guitar? Here at Gibson, we decided that the time had come to count down the Top 50 Guitar Albums of All Time.
This Day in Music Spotlight: The Troggs Make Everything Groovy
In an age when every London record label was scrambling to find the next big thing, English garage rockers The Troggs seemed as likely as anyone to succeed. Signed by Larry Page, manager of The Kinks, a year after they were formed, the band had no trouble landing a recording contract? what with Page running his own label, Page One Records.
Buddy?s Buddies: Buddy Guy?s Influence on Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan
Buddy Guy likes to portray himself as a country boy from Lettsworth, Louisiana, where he was born 74 years ago on July 30. And while Guy?s down-home lineage is true ? the proof?s in his gumbo recipe as well as his music?s roots ? he?s also much, much more. For nearly the past half century he?s been one of the most daring and sophisticated guitar players in electric blues. Yes, Guy played alongside Muddy Waters on the spectacularly soulful acoustic Folk Singer album, but he also perfected a style built on the pillars of volume, atonality and chromaticism years before Jimi Hendrix and decades before Sonic Youth, who should both be counted among his inheritors.