How a gift of thanks from one Yardbird alumnus to another turned a guitar into a bona-fide icon ...

Fans know Vince Gill as one of the best guitar players walking the earth today. It doesn’t matter if he’s adding a solo to another artist’s song, playing rhythm for the Eagles, picking a bluegrass ...

This year Fender is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster, and Nashville was chosen to host the Tele Town birthday party. I arrive in Nashville from Perth after three flights and around ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew Leimkuehler is a music journalist from Nashville, Tennessee. When someone steps on stage to play country music, the first ...

Despite garnering unflattering nicknames like "the snow shovel," "the boat paddle," and "the plank" for its simplicity and no-fuss design when it was introduced to the public in 1951, the Fender ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There are few instruments more iconic than the Telecaster ...

On the stage of the Ryman Auditorium, country music’s ‘mother church’, the legends of Nashville and beyond are coming thick and fast, either in person or spirit. This is Tele Town, a one-off, all-star ...

A guitar that changed it all. 75 years ago, the Telecaster rewrote the rules, and it remains one of the most popular instruments to this day. A one-night-only performance is taking place at the Ryman ...