Guitarist, songwriter and record producer Steve Cropper poses Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Cropper has been in the music business for more than six decades. At a time when it was ...

While noodling around on Google, Kevin Ferner discovered that the same type Gibson 339 he owned when he was in the Generics band in the 1980s sold for $79,000 on eBay. He said sold the one he had "for ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Storied guitar maker Gibson Brands has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The Nashville-based brand operates a manufacturing plant ...

Memphis musician Evan Leake always liked Joe Nathan’s east-side guitar shop and its wall of fame. Big names stopped in. Not Rolling Stones big, but Memphis big. Which coming from a place that is at ...

Following plans to sell its iconic Memphis factory last year, Gibson has announced it will relocate Memphis guitar production to Nashville. “After thorough evaluation and amid the previously disclosed ...

MEMPHIS, TENN. -- — They’re built around wooden cigar boxes, just like untold thousands of homemade guitars patched together across America since the 1800s. But no minstrel-show performer or ...

“Once the Europeans came to America in the late 1400s — Columbus, colonial invasion, all that stuff — they brought three things with them: guns, foreign influence, and guitars,” says Harvey Newquist, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn.MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It’s 1966 and a thunderstorm illuminates the night sky in Memphis, Tennessee. Two Stax Records musicians, guitarist Steve Cropper and singer Eddie Floyd, sit in a room ...