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

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Praise be! Prog’s most devout figure, Neal Morse, gets the gang back together, dials back the sermonising and reaches for the stars on his band’s sparkling first album in five years.

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