Dan patlansky

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

When the Irish band were a folksy blues three-piece, it was Eric Bell who defined Thin Lizzy on their 1971 self-titled debut and early 70s follow-ups, Shades Of A Blue Orphanage and Vagabonds Of The Western World

THEY SAY WISDOM comes with age, but in the case of 18-year-old Irish singer and guitarist Muireann Bradley, there’s an indisputable maturity at the very forefront of her recordings. She independently

Richard Barrett is on a mission to make you a better blues player – with full audio examples and backing tracks

With his trusty Fender Strat in hand and at a young 64, Bob Mould is an evergreen icon of alt and indie guitar – and he’s back with a new solo album

From his early days in the repair shop to heading up one of the world’s leading pickup brands, the master pickup maker tells us how his problem-solving mindset led to him working with some of the biggest names in the biz, and why he humbly still seems himself as “crew”