Some moments in music don't just play - they hit you somewhere deep and don't let go. A truly great guitar solo is like that.

There are a lot of great guitarists and guitar solos in the world, and we all know most of the big names and numbers. But here are 10 that you may have overlooked and/or forgotten. Some are by ...

Super Bowl LV featured a virtuoso guitar solo on Sunday (Feb. 7) when R&B artist H.E.R. shredded an inspired run on her Fender Stratocaster during a patriotic performance of "America the Beautiful." H ...

Plenty of things make Pink Floyd a unique band. But across psychedelia, piercing social commentary, or rockstar tragedy, one element always stands out (at least since A Saurceful of Secrets): the ...

Even though The Beatles tried to be a democracy at the best of times, Paul McCartney felt some solos might not have been ...

Blues rock is often known genre-wide for featuring a killer guitar solo or two, especially when it comes to these three ...

There is a select group of guitar solos that have stood the test of time. They continually pop up in “best of” lists and have long captured the imagination of burgeoning guitarists. But the praise for ...

93. The Edge on U2′s “Bullet the Blue Sky” “Bullet the Blue Sky” sticks out like a sore thumb on “The Joshua Tree,” an otherwise modest record in terms of its musical arrangements. The Edge’s guitar, ...

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 ...