Play like… the rolling stones

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

THIS MONTH, I’D like to go over the namesake song of my column, “Hard Wired,” which appears on my self-titled 2023 album. I wrote this song with my good friend Tyler Bryant, and it grew out of a jam s

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

ON MY LATEST album, One Guitar Woman, I pay tribute to many of the female pioneers of the guitar, all of whom are among the biggest influences on my approach to playing the instrument. On the album, I

What was your first guitar? I was around nine when I saw the Rolling Stones and the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. I was instantly attracted to George Harrison and Keith Richards’ guitar playing, so

The Boneshakers: strident vocal energy and spicy guitar ...