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

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The brothers Robinson recall the highs, lows and sibling spats of a 36-year recording career

Fondly remembered this month...

After decades of feuding and fall outs, Chris and Rich Robinson, aka The Black Crowes , have found a groove of brotherly love and rock bravado.

In 2001, the suicide of Big Country ’s Stuart Adamson shocked music fans all over the world. How had the man once lauded by DJ John Peel as ‘Scotland’s answer to Jimi Hendrix’ ended up taking his own life? In an exclusive extract from a new book, we look at the inside story of their debut album The Crossing .