ACOUSTIC WEEK: Blues is a wholly American music form, and as the steel- string flat-top acoustic guitar was a product of European immigrants into the United States, the two were destined to be ...

“His ingenuity resulted in the total kind of sonic transformation of the music that would become known as country, blues ... out the steel railroad tie, ran it along the guitar strings as ...

sound only distantly related to the Delta blues of Tommy Johnson or Skip James. The sound of the Delta is the sound of the steel-string guitar. The guitars of the 19th century used gut strings and ...

a steel-string guitar with an especially resonant arched top. Those instruments moved guitar music out of the parlor and onto the porch—and to the barn dance, the blues session, the bluegrass ...

Nickel-plated steel round strings offer clear ... appropriate for those who play blues, jazz, or classic rock, delivering a round, full tone. These electric guitar strings are of the highest ...