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

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…

ON JANUARY 20, 2025, one of my all-time guitar heroes, John Sykes, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. He was only 65. Like a great many rock guitarists, John’s emotional, chop-laden le

Neville Marten recalls interviews with one of his musical idols, the singer-songwriter supreme and total legend, the great JT himself

The instrument that featured on the cover of Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms is still very much in use.

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