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

A BIG PART of blues is playing over a “shuffle” groove — a triplet-driven swing-eighths feel with a backbeat (accents on beats 2 and 4) — at various tempos. There are many great shuffle-based tunes. A

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…

Summer’s here, festivals beckon, tours are kicking off ...

Tracks II: The Lost Albums SONY

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