Ever since Chuck Berry hot-wired the "jump blues" sound in the 1950s, the electric guitar has been the soul of rock-and-roll. The plugged-in, amplified twang and squeal sounded like noise to ...

Ask any music fan to make a list of famous guitars, and they’ll likely start with B.B. King’s beloved Lucille. King’s old lady was a Gibson semi-hollow body ES-355, and she was named for a ...