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

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

Album: New Light (Big Sun Records)

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

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

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