His guitar solos always blow me away ... casting the Telecaster as a semiotic register of Western music (whereas Greene plays the Telecaster like a magic wand, nearly referenceless).

With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent ...

His unforgettable guitar playing has taken the “desert ... Coltun isn’t interested in making this music more palatable to Western audiences. “It’s about keeping it to what it is, ...

first from traditional Japanese instruments to the western violin and then, as popular taste changed from classical music to rock and country, from the violin to the guitar.