Calling all guitar enthusiasts and music aficionados. Legendary guitarist Eric Clapton is teaming up with Guitar Center to unveil the Crossroads Guitar Festival’s 25th Anniversary Guitar Collection.

John Mayer’s signature graces the parlour-sized Martin 00-42SC John Mayer Crossroads, while Carlos Santana’s PRS Private Stock Carlos Santana Crossroads electric rounds out the set. Those in the ...

Carlos Santana knows a bit about classic songs: After all, he’s made a few of them himself, from “Oye Como Va” to the more recent “Smooth.” But for his latest album, the guitar god took ...

SANTANA: My guitar is my best lover, ever. Lovers come and go, but your relationship with the guitar — any brand or anything — stays. But it’s your relationship with that sound.

Q There are many enduring relationships you have in “Carlos” but how would you characterize your relationship to the guitar? Carlos Santana, left, and Eric Clapton hug following a jam session ...

SANTANA: My guitar is my best lover, ever. Lovers come and go, but your relationship with the guitar — any brand or anything — stays. But it's your relationship with that sound.

Carlos Santana, left, and Eric Clapton hug following a jam session at the Cotton Bowl during the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival Sunday, June 6, 2004, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez ...

NEW YORK — “Take no prisoners — peacefully,” Carlos Santana sometimes tells his bandmates before taking the stage. “I don’t like to coast. I don’t like to rope-a-dope,” Santana says.