Improve your slide guitar

This month, Richard Barrett grabs his acoustic and shows you another way to expand your chord vocabulary

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

Can this early 60s Gibson Southern Jumbo be saved or has it gone belly up?

Charlie Wilkins explores why guitarists crave sustain, how to get it and why some guitars sustain better than others

Streamliners have been ever-present in Gretsch’s catalogue, but this could be a one-off

This month Alex Bishop unravels the intricate fretwork of a century-old concert mandolin