Record-store Clerk: Cry, Scream, And Moan: Electric Guitar Music

"This is what makes a great rock & roll guitar sound: an irresistible riff; a solo or jam that takes you higher every time you hear it; the final power chord that pins you to the wall and makes you hit 'play' again and again." -Rolling Stone

They don't make rock songs like they used to! These songs feature the best axe-men of all-time playing their best riffs, licks, and solos.

Jimi Hendrix was arguably the best guitarist to ever live. Celebrate his life and music with songs by his greatest influences, closest contemporaries, indebted followers, and Jimi himself. Request songs at https://www.facebook.com/TheJimiHendrixExperience

Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of the most talented and influential blues guitar players of all time. This playlist features songs by his greatest influences, his closest contemporaries, his indebted followers, and Stevie Ray himself.

Hair metal (or glam metal) was born on LA's Sunset Strip in the 1980s. Synonymous with heavy riffs, anthemic choruses, blown-out hair, and spandex, hair metal is some of the best party music ever made.

The best songs from the groups that pioneered that ultra-cool surfer sound. Guitar-heavy and full of reverb, these tunes are perfect for strapping your board to the roof of your woodie and cruising to the beach.

Essential songs born out of 1950s Chicago blues. Influenced by the rural, Delta Blues, Chicago's bluesman introduced amplification and electric instruments into the genre which led to the birth of rock 'n roll.

An introduction to all things metal: the loudest, fastest, most brutal genre of rock music.

A collection of rock's hardest-hitting classics, from metal to glam to grunge.

Throughout his prolific career, Eric Clapton has collaborated with some of the biggest names in rock & roll, blues, and pop. Listen to a collection of songs that feature "Slowhand" as a sideman, lead guitarist, or bandleader.

Sit back, relax, and drink the "electric kool-aid." This playlist offers up the best psychedelic music from the genre's most fruitfull decade, the 1960s. Far out, indeed.

During the 1058 days between Jan. 14, 1967 (the Human Be-In) and Dec. 6, 1969 (Altamont), rock became the voice of a generation. This fertile period yielded more iconic songs than ever before or since.

Fire up the grill and crack a Bud Heavy - this collection of southern rock classics will make you feel like one of the good ole' boys, no matter where you're cooking-out.

Got yourself a '69 Pontiac Trans Am with a 350 H.O. under the hood, a two-tone custom spray job and racing slicks out back? Blast these scuzzy, '70s leaning rock anthems from your radio and taste the envy in the parking lot air.

Classic in-concert moments from blues kings and queens, from the Mississippi Delta (Johnny Shines) to the Windy City (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf), and beyond.

The British blues boom, from its purist mid-'60s beginnings to the early '70s, when a new breed of bands brought a harder edge to England's take on U.S. blues and R&B.

Of course, only Freddie Mercury and the lads truly sounded like Queen, but these artists invoke the spirit of Queen by being as bombastic, exciting and over-the-top as possible.

Rock & roll icons' greatest in-concert moments captured for posterity, from '60s psychedelic warriors (Grateful Dead) and '70s art-rockers (Roxy Music) to punk pioneers (The Clash) and new wave trailblazers (Talking Heads).

Celebrate the modern blues scene and keep the blues alive with this mix of strict traditionalists and artists who are willing to bring a more modern touch to (arguably) America's greatest musical export.

These are the songs that take classic rock to another level: forgotten B-sides and sprawling deep cuts from the most iconic rock acts of the '60s and '70s.