Many musicians play guitars, but some have a special connection to their prized axe. So special, in fact, the guitars have names and are treated like family.

Although Willie Nelson, 85, remains an outspoken troubadour ... O’Rourke quietly re-emerged with an acoustic guitar and played rhythm while singing backup on “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When ...

Well-worn guitars are the preferred instrument for many guitar players. Where some see blemishes, others see stories.

Steve Perry and Willie Nelson ... ballad as Nelson warbles, “Highway run in the midnight sun/ Wheels go round and round/ You’re on my mind” over tender acoustic guitar.

To cite the most basic difference, no one is going to play a guessing game in advance of the tour of whether any hits will make it into Nelson’s setlist; What Would Willie Do is a fairly ...

“No one has a voice or vocal phrasing anything like Willie Nelson ... on electric guitar, Kent Wells on acoustic guitar, Scott Sanders on steel guitar, Steve Mackey on bass, Nelson’s ...

Steve Miller, founder of the Steve Miller Band, was presented the Les Paul Spirit Award June 9 at Nashville's Gibson Garage.

It’s Willie who ... songs in Nelson’s setlist, of course — “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” being another showcase for his utterly undiminished acoustic guitar playing as well ...

A weeping steel guitar played ... Steve Mackey and acoustic guitarist Kent Wells, who also produced. “No one has a voice or vocal phrasing anything like Willie Nelson," Perry said in an official ...