The damn truth

Hot Wax always started the same way: Suzanne in the driver’s seat of a butter-yellow ’68 Ford Ranchero fondly known as Blondie. The car is a character in the book as much as anyone else – Suzanne’s on

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The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax