Folk-blues fingerpicking

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

Album: New Light (Big Sun Records)

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

Returning with an album of man-and-guitar Dylan covers, the Eurythmics legend’s playing has never been laid so bare. He tells us about gigging folk clubs underage, the blues in his palette, and a memorable night on the tiles with Robert Zimmerman himself

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

Will we ever know the true story of this fabled guitar? For some it’s iconic, for others it was simply a cobbled together working tool for a master…