Guitar world june 2025 ga-2.0

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

With her diverse new album full of amazing playing, there are changes afoot for the Grammy Award-winning acoustic-guitar virtuoso as she takes a few steps away from her bluegrass roots

Album: New Light (Big Sun Records)

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

PETER GILES

Album: Without The Pain (Snakefarm Music)