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THE NEW HARD Road is a landmark album for Christone “Kingfish” Ingram. It’s not only his first studio recording since 2021’s Grammy-winning 662, but it’s the first release on his own label, Red Zero R

“MY WIFE HAS enrolled me in a gym, and I have to go lift weights for an hour after this,” chuckles blues guitarist extraordinaire Walter Trout, the 74-year-old survivor of a drug habit and subsequent

IN THE LAST 25 years, Joe Bonamassa has dropped 16 studio records. That’s a lot of music, meaning it’s hard to keep things fresh — and his latest, Breakthrough, despite its title, doesn’t even try to

THE RUMOR WAS that Buddy Guy planned to retire — and considering that he’s pushing 90, no one would blame him — but it seems that, despite Guy’s age, rumors of his retreat were, well, premature. Still

After two decades tilling the soil of Louisville’s fertile underground scene, Ryan Davis is finally coming up roses. His two albums with The Roadhouse Band have placed him at the vanguard of a new wave of wry, literate bandleaders putting a fresh spin on fuzzy country-rock. “We’ve only ever followed our own North Star,” Davis tells Sam Richards, of his band’s long road to renown. “Now, for whatever reason, we’ve somehow circumnavigated the whole shitshow!”

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