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

Charlie Wilkins explores why guitarists crave sustain, how to get it and why some guitars sustain better than others

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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

Fender’s Custom Shop had a precarious start in the mid-1980s, but the story of its formative years is full of big ideas, some bizarre instruments, and a queue of famous guitarists

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