Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World

This biography follows Les Paul’s inventive approach to sound and guitar-making. It traces experiments that turn everyday materials—among them a broomstick, cinderblock, telephone, radio, record-player arm, speaker, and tape—into parts of musical experiments. The book presents curiosity, tools, repeated trial and error, and confidence in possible solutions as parts of his work on the solid-body electric guitar.