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'Dueling Banjos' songwriter, Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith has passed away just two days after his 93rd birthday. The songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and TV star came into the spotlight ...
Gibson has announces that Randall Smith, Mesa/Boogie founder and legend of guitar amp design. has left the company. In a statement, Gibson, which acquired Mesa/Boogie in January 2022, said that it ...
The kid from Kershaw, S.C., picked a guitar like his fingers were on fire. Hot licks flew from the instrument when Arthur Smith played – a wizard coaxing magic out of the strings. In 1945, he wrote ...
Arthur Smith, a trailblazing guitarist and banjoist who wrote and recorded “Guitar Boogie” and “Dueling Banjos,” the latter heard in the acclaimed movie Deliverance, and influenced the Beatles, among ...
Steve Bolton said the Who guitarist taught him the power of using just one guitar for some of his most bombastic tracks ...
Loved by the likes of John Petrucci, the Mark IIC+ HRG presents super-clean tone at super-high volume and a super-tight ...
Boogie-woogie was a piano style that began sometime in the early 20th century — and, by the 1930s, became a huge pop-music fad. Here, rock historian Ed Ward explains how the genre re-emerged in ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Arthur Smith, a trailblazing guitarist and banjoist who wrote and recorded “Guitar Boogie” and “Dueling Banjos,” the latter heard in the acclaimed movie “Deliverance,” and influenced ...