A dead-end search, a Facebook message and a trip into the California desert led Bonamassa to one of the most meaningful ...

Not all Blackguard Tele pickups are alike. Here's what you need to know to keep that twang in your sound ...

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 ...

Fender’s recent 75th Anniversary Telecaster launch bonanza spanned five new models across five product ranges – so you’d be forgiven for glossing over the spec. Anniversary guitars are typically new ...

Sixty years ago this month, a musical icon was born. If you've listened to any kind of popular music from the past 60 years, you've heard a Telecaster. It's a sound that changed guitar-making, ...

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 ...

Few guitars carry more historical weight than the Fender Telecaster. With its compact body and brash, incisive twang, the Telecaster—first introduced by Fender in the 1950s—played a pivotal role in ...

Quiffed, middle-aged and a bit portly, Gatton was an unlikely magazine cover star - or ’80s guitar hero. This, you may recall, was still the era of stick-thin shredders with pointy guitars and ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Now, Fender is offering a rare discount on a huge lineup of ...

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 ...

When Leo Fender was inducted into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, the citation correctly noted that “Rock’n’roll as we know it could not exist” without the inventor of the first mass-produced ...

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 ...