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WHEN SESSION MAN Tim Pierce looks back at his career, he doesn’t view himself as a legend who’s played on more than a thousand records; instead, his perspective is one of deep gratitude. “It seemed li

Amid the mayhem of his European tour, Joe takes time out to give us a guided tour around his 2025 live gear, delivers the lowdown on some of his more storied guitars, and tells us why his mighty multi-amp rig has to run at breaking point in order to make the earth move and those riffs resonate…

BEHIND AN UNMARKED door in a nondescript West London street, you’ll find the recording studio of the world’s most reluctant rock god. Do this job long enough and you’ll learn to spot the artists who p

WHEN TY SEGALL and collaborator Matt Yoka started writing the lyrics to the former’s new and 17th solo album, Possession, the pair set off to present a series of “quintessentially American stories.” T

Celine Dion, a tree made of coat hangers, Crufts… Thirty years after the startling experiments of Tilt defined SCOTT WALKER ’ s latter-day career, his collaborators reveal all about the idiosyncratic working practices that took him from teen idol to avant-garde hero. “It was almost like a rejection of his past,” one eyewitness tells Rob Hughes. “Almost like anti-music.”

Few guitarists are loved as equally for their acoustic work as their electric playing but such is the unique talent of Richard Thompson . We meet him to find out how he’s preparing to go head-to-head with Tommy Emmanuel, chat about the end of his touring days, and talk alternative tunings