Guitar Player editor in chief Michael Molenda selects, decodes, and celebrates 100 essential guitar albums that all obsessed guitarists and fans of guitar music should own. Encompassing all styles - from blues to rock to jazz to country, metal, and beyond - 100 Greatest Guitar Albums details why each album is critical to the evolution of guitar craft and guitar culture, reveals the basic gear used by the artist to create his or her music, and includes inspirational quotes from each guitarist culled from the Guitar Player archives. Far from a dreary, intellectual discourse on historic points of reference, 100 Greatest Guitar Albums is an emotional journey through the riffs, solos, tones, techniques, compositions, recordings, postures, fashions, and scandals that make guitarists such thrilling and compelling musical icons. Albums include Are You Experienced?, Frampton Comes Alive, Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings, Boss Guitar, Blow by Blow, Van Halen, and more.