Even though last night’s sold-out Les Paul Tribute concert was held at Nashville’s hallowed Ryman Auditorium, it invoked a far more intimate setting, one which the late Les Paul was very familiar with — New York’s Iridium Jazz Club, where Paul played every week right up until his death this past August.

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How High The Mood: Reflections on The Les Paul Tribute Concert

The passing of the incomparable Les Paul in August 2009 broke the hearts of guitar enthusiasts around the world. What can never be broken, though, is the legacy of innovation and creativity that he built during 94 years of constant musicianship. Though the original guitar he designed in 1952 has informed every Gibson guitar since, our engineers were inspired anew to handcraft a guitar just the way Les demanded it nearly 60 years ago.

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Introducing the Les Paul Tribute 1952 Guitar

Tonight’s (Nov. 19) celebration of the life of the great Les Paul promises to be one of the most momentous musical events of the year

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Tonight’s Les Paul Tribute To Feature Star-Studded Gathering At Nashville’s Ryman

Considering that it’s the foundation instrument upon which rock and roll was built, it’s hardly surprising that guitars have often been the lyrical focus of great songwriting.

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10 Cool Songs About Guitars

Hot new British actor Jamie Campbell Bower recently dropped by the Gibson Guitar Showroom in Central London to check out the new Gibson Zoot Suit SG. Jamie Campbell Bower’s latest role sees him playing a vampire Caius in Twilight New Moon the hotly anticipated follow up to the hit movie Twilight alongside Robert Pattinson.

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Twilight New Moon Actor and Musician Jamie Campbell Bower Gets His Teeth Into the Gibson Zoot Suit SG

Most people know Les Paul as the six-string innovator whose designs fueled the classic Gibson instrument that bears his name. But the half-century that’s elapsed since the heyday of his recording career has washed his accomplishments as a studio genius — multitracking, tape speed manipulation, phasing, otherworldly reverb effects, and more — largely into the past.

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Roots Guitar Virtuoso Duke Robillard Pays Tribute to Les Paul With New Album

Today Gibson Guitar is fully cooperating with agents of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service as it pertains to an issue with harvested wood. Gibson is a chain of custody certified buyer who purchases wood from legal suppliers who are to follow all standards. Gibson Guitar Chairman and CEO sits on the board of the Rainforest Alliance and takes the issue of certification very seriously. The company will continue to cooperate fully and assist our federal government with all inquiries and information.

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Gibson Guitar Corp. Press Statement

Today Gibson Guitar is fully cooperating with agents of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service as it pertains to an issue with harvested wood. Gibson is a chain of custody certified buyer who purchases wood from legal suppliers who are to follow all standards. Gibson Guitar Chairman and CEO sits on the board of the Rainforest Alliance and takes the issue of certification very seriously

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Gibson Guitar Corp. Press Statement

One of B.B. King’s earliest blues idols and influences was his cousin Booker, better know as the Memphis blues singer/guitarist Bukka White. Booker, who was born on November 12, 1909 and began recording in 1930, showed young Riley, as King was known before he became the “Beale Street Blues Boy,” that there were possibilities beyond the Delta.

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A Tribute to B.B. King’s First Blues Hero — The Great Bukka White

The Faces are “seriously talking about touring” in the spring, with or without original frontman Rod Stewart.

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Faces Geared Up To Tour in 2010, With Or Without Rod Stewart