Exclusive audio: the Jeff Healey Band live in Vancouver, New Year’s Eve 1990

I always thought Jeff Healey was one of the greatest blues-rock guitarists that ever lived. I rank him right up there with Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Dickey Betts gets stretch of road named after him, 11 years after Duane Allman got his

Just heard some fantastic news: that a stretch of highway in Florida is going to be named after Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts.

Way back in 1993 I interviewed Vancouver-based rock guitarist Lance Reegan-Diehl, who blew me away with some very wicked guitar playing.

Fortunately for the world's guitar-rock freaks, Larry Anschell of Turtle Recording Studios captured the show for a live radio broadcast.

Groves delivers the six-string blasts previously recorded by Scorps guitarists Uli Jon Roth, Matthias Jabs, and Rudolf Schenker.

Guitarist Michael Schenker has been blowing people away with his talent ever since, at 16 years, he played on the Scorpions' debut album.

I did my second interview with one of my favourite rock guitarists from the '70s, Blue Öyster Cult's Buck Dharma, back on January 27 of 2000.

Five years ago a guitar player from Ireland who I'd never heard of sent me his new instrumental CD, Apparitions, thinking I might like it.

A Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers concert isn't the first place you'd normally go to in hopes of hearing long, drawn-out guitar solos.

The transcendent sight of the Fab Four invading America wasn't what got David Murray to devote himself to a life in the earbusting arts.

Ever since his death was announced last January, a lot has been said about former Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes.

John Sykes only recorded two albums with Thin Lizzy before the death of Phil Lynott, but his time with the band meant a lot to its fans.

I interviewed Steve Howe for the second time in July of 2001, when Yes was on a North American tour performing with symphony orchestras.