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GALLERY: Guitar Center Eric Clapton Crossroads Collection 2013

Fender Custom Shop Eric Clapton "Brownie" Tribute Strat, Gibson Harrsison-Clapton "Lucy" Les Paul, and a trio of Martin 000 body-style acoustics round out the collection. Photos courtesy Guitar Center.

Fender Custom Shop Eric Clapton "Brownie" Tribute Stratocaster
Fender Custom shop had access to the original "Brownie" and meticulously recreated every little detail. Mike Eldred, director of the Fender Custom Shop says, "Whenever we do a tribute guitar, we take the original guitar apart and measure and weigh everything. Just documenting the guitar took three days." Although every ding and dent is accounted for, "everything is new as far as playability," says Eldred.

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There’s no disputing the influence B.B. King has had on the history of electric guitar music. We’re talking about his sound, his best records, his guitars, his showmanship, and his collabs, from an all-star jam at the 2010 Crossroads festival to, yes, even his 1988 U2 collab, “When Love Comes to Town.”


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Tighten up your rhythm playing by focusing on how to get a great sound, balancing your wrist and elbow, and understanding how to subdivide rhythms.

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Nile Rodgers brings the rhythm at Bonnaroo 2018.

Photo by Chris Kies

How the rhythm-playing hitmaker behind Chic—and our columnist—learned to love pop music, and why maybe you should, too.

When Nile Rodgers speaks, we should listen. His seminal work with his own band, Chic, as well as Sister Sledge, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Madonna, David Bowie, and Daft Punk, has made him a legend. He also filmed an entertaining Rig Rundown with PG just last year.

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