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“MY WIFE HAS enrolled me in a gym, and I have to go lift weights for an hour after this,” chuckles blues guitarist extraordinaire Walter Trout, the 74-year-old survivor of a drug habit and subsequent

DON’T LET THE finality of The End fool you. Despite the connotations of the title of Wolfgang Van Halen’s third and latest album as Mammoth, the hard rocker’s thrilling new era has only just begun. Wh

SLASH WAS THERE when, in the aftermath of Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction, the band suddenly exploded onto a chaotic arc from Sunset Strip hopefuls to one of the biggest, mos

Martin Newell is Britain’s most published poet, has been writing lo-fi pop songs for almost 50 years and can include Oasis legend Noel Gallagher among his fans. Yet you may not have heard of him. That

LARRY MCCRAY WAS one of the great new-generation blues guitarists of the Nineties, emerging out of Saginaw, Michigan, with 1993’s excellent Delta Hurricane. He was a regular at blues festivals and clu

IN THE LAST 25 years, Joe Bonamassa has dropped 16 studio records. That’s a lot of music, meaning it’s hard to keep things fresh — and his latest, Breakthrough, despite its title, doesn’t even try to