T-Bone Walker may have been the first true hero of modern electric blues, but he stood upon the shoulders of jazz and blues ...

An unexpected connection between the city of Seattle and a bass guitarist from Finland. Yet, the trailblazing musician and inventor is little known in his own hometown. Paul Tutmarc, actor, radio star ...

Online exhibit showing how the need for louder guitars led to the invention and proliferation of the electric guitar and how the emergence and popularity of rock and roll led to the guitar's ...

Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning guitar virtuoso and inventor of the solid-body electric guitar who helped bring his instrument to the forefront of jazz and rock-and-roll performance, died Aug. 13 ...

"The book is drawn from a 1996 symposium on the invention of the electric guitar presented by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Technology, National Museum of American History, ...