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slide guitar

slide guitar

noun

  1. a technique of guitar playing derived from bottleneck, using a steel or glass tube on one finger across the frets
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of slide guitar1

First recorded in 1965–70
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Dua Lipa, “These Walls†Killer bass line, gorgeous slide guitar — and a glamazon pop star determined not to let you in.

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With the sweeping album closer, “To Love,†which evokes the aching slide guitar of Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You,†Waterhouse took the stems of her viral hit “Good Looking†and stripped it down.

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Nollman mainly plays slide guitar for whale species, but has worked with a wide range of other musicians, including a grammy-winning oboe player, violinists, percussionists, a chanting Tibetian lama and more.

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The addition of pedals made steel guitar a country music staple, while blues and jazz musicians adopted the slide guitar, which utilized a similar gliding technique while holding the guitar upright.

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That attention has grown steadily since 2013, when Webster, then 16, self-released her debut album, “Run and Tell,†a folksy whirl of slide guitar and twang.

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