Compact, affordable and full of Fender DNA, the Blues Junior celebrates 30 years as one of the company’s most iconic and celebrated valve amp designs. Senior product manager, Rick Heins, joins us to mark the milestone

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

Lees, Holroyd, Wolstenholme and Pritchard; you might think it sounds like a legal firm in, say, Oldham, Lancashire. And you’d be right about the Oldham part. John Lees (guitar), Les Holroyd (bass), St

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

A teenager’s unusual folk-soul experiment comes around again.