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

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

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

Album: New Light (Big Sun Records)

Nearly 40 years on from the Custom Shop’s inception, its creations are more ambitious than ever. Find out how the team walks the tightrope between ‘canon’ and ‘cannot’, and where its guitars are heading next