Guitar

This week's listening recommendations are eclectic, to say the least, but well worth your time.

Kev Mauger suffered horrific head trauma and injuries after being catapulted over his motorcycle handlebars four years ago. Despite being told he would never play guitar again, his love for music has been key in his recovery.

Margaret River musician Jay Wood woke from a coma after a car crash left her in a near-helpless state of  'being like a baby", but that hasn't stopped her kickstarting her life from scratch.

From no names, to big names, the Melbourne Guitar Show was a showcase of sound.

Fellow musicians pay tribute to Tom Verlaine, who died on Saturday after a brief illness, and was revered by generations of rock guitarists for his jaggedly inventive playing.

When the US annexed Hawaii, it prompted many, including musicians, to leave. Their music travelled with them and, by the 1930s, Australians couldn't get enough of it.

One Canberra man who took the plunge to become a luthier is urging others to follow their dreams and turn a passion into a profitable job. Harry Frost reports.

Struggling to process intense sensory experiences, Tom was an angry child — until he found the classical guitar could help him to control his ADHD and autism.

Eddie Van Halen, considered one of rock music's greatest guitar players and a founding member of the hugely successful rock band named after him and his drummer brother, dies of cancer at the age of 65.

Bill and Ted Face the Music may not rock the universe, but this comeback is true to the generous, guileless — and anti-elitist — spirit of the originals.

A record-breaking sale took place at Christie's auction house in New York and included iconic instruments played by David Gilmour throughout Pink Floyd's history.

Guitar virtuoso Phil "The Wiz" Emmanuel's contribution to the Australian music industry is being recognised with the release of a posthumous album, as his family comes to terms with his tragic death.

Jodi Ball's dream of joining the Defence Forces turned into a nightmare when she was abducted and raped by fellow officers. Now she's learning to play the guitar as part of a program helping veterans use music to heal.

A chance encounter on a regional highway changed the lives of two songwriters and helped give older musicians their chance to be heard.

Luke Escombe met Leon Bozanich while driving to Bridgetown in November 2016.

At first glance Guy Pearce has had a fairytale career, with a string of acting credits and now two music albums to his name. But the tragic death of his father has weighed heavily throughout, only recently starting to make sense following the birth of his first child.

In a skinny shop-space on one of Mount Isa's main streets, a luthier is helping to reinvent the dying craft of guitar-making.

Tasmanian-born Richard Morgan has been making guitars, mandolins and mandocello's for the last eight years, and believes he belongs to an 'almost dead species' of luthiers.

When former firefighter turned guitar teacher Dean Gray heard about the bushfire that destroyed 65 homes in Tathra, he put a call out for instruments to give to young musicians who had lost everything.

Does Missy Higgins or Nick Cave have the more verbose lyrics? And between Courtney Barnett, Paul Kelly and Kasey Chambers, whose lyrics are more readable?

In the short 27 years Jimi Hendrix was alive, he made an astonishing contribution to the world of electric guitar playing. Here are four tracks that prove his genius.

A healthy way of avoiding visits to the pub turns a guitar making hobby into a fully fledged obsession for Phil Gelmi.

Louie Shelton is the best guitarist you've never heard of, and he's nurturing a generation of young Australian Baha'i musicians.

The path of US singer-songwriter Ryan Adams has taken many unexpected turns and that is a testimony to the role music plays in his life, writes Mark Bannerman.

London-based teacher Justin Sandercoe is one of the most popular online guitar teachers in the world since posting his first video a decade ago, and his point of difference is keeping his lessons free.