Play a guitar? With a towel?! Danny Gatton could do that and so much more, and his talent remains underrated today.

Quiffed, middle-aged and a bit portly, Gatton was an unlikely magazine cover star - or ’80s guitar hero. This, you may recall, was still the era of stick-thin shredders with pointy guitars and ...

The Telecaster electric guitar is the musical equivalent of Henry Ford’s Model T: a historical breakthrough, because it was a cheap and durable assembly-line product. Invented by Leo Fender in 1950 ...

WASHINGTON — His nickname was “The Humbler,” because that’s what Danny Gatton did to any guitarist who tried to match him lick-for-lick. Born in D.C. 70 years ago, Gatton’s guitar mastery and ...