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

HELLO, AND WELCOME to my new column for Guitar World! Over the course of these lessons, I will be sharing many of the techniques and approaches I use for creating effective melodies and rhythm guitar

This month Richard Barrett embellishes some open-position chords to find that satisfying jangle

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With a long-awaited studio album, Two Shades Of Blue , poised for release, the master of jazz-flavoured blues dropped by the Guitarist studios to talk about his new record and the guitars he’s used during his career, and record two exclusive videos

ONE OF THE standout tracks from my new album, B.B. King: Blues Summit 100, is a cover of the iconic tune “When Love Comes to Town,” which is a song King had recorded with U2 in 1988, an unlikely pairi