Sometimes, a solid rock song just needs to have its production stripped down and its instrumentation broken down into basic parts to really shine. Plenty of rock stars have performed “unplugged” ...

There was a time when the guitar was more of a background instrument in a pop music ensemble. In the early part of the 20th century, pianos and saxes were more likely to stand out as the showy lead ...

Many rock songs are written on an acoustic guitar. When MTV Unplugged began airing acoustic versions of popular songs, it gave audiences a glimpse of what a hit might have sounded like in its earliest ...

"As Tears Go By" was a top-10 hit for the famed English singer Marianne Faithfull, and came out before the Stones released the song themselves. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is one ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...