High water mark

With her diverse new album full of amazing playing, there are changes afoot for the Grammy Award-winning acoustic-guitar virtuoso as she takes a few steps away from her bluegrass roots

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

Album: New Light (Big Sun Records)

Iron Maiden tours. Black Sabbath shows. Judas Priest documentaries. Times Square billboards. Lzzy Hale is everyone’s favourite go-to rock star. But it’s taken a rock-bottom moment and some existential soul-searching to get here

Mike Zaite explains how a background in electronics and a front-row seat to the British Invasion of the 1960s led to the formation of Dr Z Amplification – and why the sonics always lead the schematics

Friends for two decades, blues giants Joe Bonamassa and Joanne Shaw Taylor invited Classic Rock to join them and press ‘Record’ as they put the world to rights – from AI and internet trolls to crap journalists, and the music execs who need a punch in the face.