Malone notes that Mama Tried "recalls for us the 1960s California honky tonk and the Merle Haggard sound of those years, featuring the searing electric guitar of Roy Nichols."

Disraeli Gears featured Clapton's searing guitar lines, Bruce's soaring vocals and prominent, fluid bass playing, and Baker's powerful, polyrhythmic jazz-influenced drumming.

The album was described as "...a culmination of searing guitars that never collide and are always textured with the rhythm section's simple powerful backbone."

He formed his first professional band, the grunge/metal trio, "Apparition" in his teens, playing searing guitar and singing for young fans throughout the Bay Area.

In an era when 'grunge' continues to be a dirty word, singer/songwriter Raj Siva-Rajah still carries the torch, marrying melodic hooks with searing guitar and a driving rhythm section.

AntiMusic said that "from start to finish The War of Art is an uncompromising heavy album filled with righteous screams, in your face bass and drums and searing guitars."

He can hark back to the elemental backbeat and searing guitar of Delta blues.

The music is a mixture of high-tech and traditional, in which searing Santana-like electric guitar and synthesizer riffs knife across the jumpy, uneasy drums and chants of rara - Haitian street revelry.

Blues and Memphis soul music merge in the songs of Robert Cray, whose aching voice and searing guitar delineate the hopes and pain of a lover with a tortured conscience.

As noted by one reviewer, "...the blind musician will be remembered best for playing searing guitar on his lap, looking like a pedal steel guitar man gone mad.