This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)

"This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1975 studio album Extra Texture (Read All About It). Harrison wrote it as a sequel to his popular Beatles composition "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", in response to the personal criticism he had received during and after his 1974 North American tour with Ravi Shankar, particularly from Rolling Stone magazine. Contributing to Harrison's sense of injustice was his feeling that Rolling Stone and other publications had chosen to ignore the successful aspects of the shows – which blended rock, jazz, funk and Indian classical music – and had focused instead on how the tour failed to pay due respect to the legacy of his former band, the Beatles.

Harrison recorded "This Guitar" in Los Angeles during a period of bitterness and despondency following Rolling Stone's scathing review of his 1974 album Dark Horse. The recording features guitar solos played by Harrison and American musician Jesse Ed Davis. The song marks a rare guitar-oriented selection on the otherwise keyboard-heavy Extra Texture album, although David Foster, Gary Wright and Harrison all contributed keyboard parts to the track. "This Guitar" was also issued as a single – the final release for Apple Records in its original incarnation – but it failed to chart in either the United States or Britain. The song has traditionally enjoyed a mixed reception from music critics, partly due to the inevitable comparisons with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".