Hardwired

This month Alex Bishop unravels the intricate fretwork of a century-old concert mandolin

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

The ever-active session legend on his love for cheap guitars, Roland gear, and modding his pickups

Can this early 60s Gibson Southern Jumbo be saved or has it gone belly up?