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    Duke Robillard – Lowdown

    Vintage Guitar is happy to offer the premier of the new music video by Grammy nominee Duke Robillard. “Lowdown” is the  first single from his upcoming album, Blast Off!, set…

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Jeff Berlin

Flashback to Jack

July 26, 2023 · Pete Prown

Fusion bassist Jeff Berlin’s new album, Jack Songs, is an all-star tribute to Jack Bruce, the trailblazing virtuoso and frontman…

Have Guitar Will Travel 072 – Shannon Lauren Callihan

March 30, 2022 · Vintage Guitar

Episode 72 of “Have Guitar Will Travel” features host James Patrick Regan speaking with young R&B singer/songwriter Shannon Lauren Callihan,…

How Ron Wood’s New Barbarians Saved the Stones

Ear-to-Ear Violence

January 5, 2018 · Michael Dregni

Today, the Rolling Stones continue to perform live, more than 50 years since their first gig. But few realize how…

Check This Action: Animals Let Loose

April 12, 2023 · Dan Forte

As a kid, I dug The Beatles, Stones, Yardbirds, Kinks, Manfred Mann, and pretty much the whole British Invasion. But,…

Gibson Les Paul Special 3/4

January 18, 2010 · George Gruhn and Walter Carter

Gibson’s double-cutaway Les Paul Special 3/4 from 1959 is one of the rarest Les Pauls from the “golden era.” It’s…

Epiphone Crestwood

’60s Un-Gibson Solidbody

July 14, 2017 · Eric C. Shoaf

Gibson’s acquisition of Epiphone in 1957 presented a tremendous challenge to guitar designers and marketers at the company. One challenge…

  • Carr Skylark Special 1×12

    Carr Skylark Special 1×12

    Take Flight

    Arriving a little more than 10 years after the original Skylark, Carr Amplifiers’ new Skylark Special adds versatility and enhanced tonal depths to squeeze a lot more into this diminutive…

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Warren Haynes

Peace, Love, and Rock & Roll

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Warren Haynes and his Gov’t Mule crew aren’t the kind of guys to let something like a pandemic slow them…

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February 9, 2024 · Ward Meeker

Lasse Wellander, longtime guitarist in ABBA and a renowned studio and solo musician, died April 7. He was 70 and…

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A Guitar Wizard Comes of Age

March 14, 2016 · Pete Prown

People having been raving about Julian Lage since he was a young guitar prodigy almost 20 years ago – he…

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New York State of Mind

December 26, 2017 · Tom Guerra

As the longtime lead guitarist for Garland Jeffreys and Ian Hunter, Mark Bosch’s resumé reads like a who’s who of…


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Alamo Music Products holds a unique place in the history of electric guitars and basses. The Houston-based company began its…

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Sometimes it takes just the slightest aesthetic twist to get an amp nut all worked up. This 1960 Premier Twin…

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Texas is known for music, especially Austin, which in the mid ’70s became a hotbed thanks to clubs like Armadillo…


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You may be wondering, “What in the world is an ‘underdrive’ pedal?” Good question. Well, you know the traffic-jam of…

Budda’s Baby Budda Amp Head

Big-Boy Tone

September 21, 2015 · Oscar Jordan

Budda Amplification staked its claim in 1995 with the Twinmaster boutique amplifier. Its hand-wired construction and user-friendly tones were hits…

BC Audio Amplifier No. 10 Mk. II

BC Audio Amplifier No. 10 Mk. II

Big-Tone City

March 11, 2016 · Pete Prown

BC Audio Amplifier No. 10 Mk. II Price: $2,495 (list) Contact: www.bcaudio.com Bruce Clement is known for his quality amp…

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August 13, 2025 · Pete Prown

Harden Engineering is a small Chicago shop that specializes in hand-made instruments in a variety of shapes and sizes and…

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Film Noir Guitar

March 29, 2016 · Pete Prown

The instrumental music of Big Lazy echoes of Hollywood soundtracks – scores from gritty detective flicks, suspenseful prison breakouts, and…

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August 8, 2023 · Wolf Marshall

Marshall Tucker Band was arguably the most unusual Southern-rock group of the ’70s. Its namesake wasn’t the leader, a member,…

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Up From Down Under

September 1, 2023 · Pete Prown

Born in Denmark, Kristian Borring now lives in one of the most-remote major cities on earth – Perth, on the…

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The Routes: Psychedelic Faithful

April 14, 2020 · Johnny Zapp

The Routes embody all the best elements of the ’60s psychedelic-rock scene. Based in Japan and fronted by British-born guitarist…

Silver Lining

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December 26, 2017 · George Gruhn

Recognized today as visionary, when introduced in 1922, Gibson’s Master Model L-5 and F-5 were expensive to produce and lacked…

Magnets and Magic The PAF – Yesterday, Today

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The PAF – Yesterday, Today

June 21, 2016 · Ward Meeker

When it came to launching a solidbody electric guitar, Fender beat Gibson to the punch with its Broadcaster model in…

Spoon

Lucifer On The Sofa

November 17, 2022 · Michael Dregni

Ten studio albums in, Spoon’s latest just may be its purest rock-and-roll record. What took so long? The band’s early…

Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ Reissue

Dual-Mode Delivery

November 14, 2025 · Dave Hunter

The evolution of Randall Smith’s legendary high-gain Mesa/Boogie design into the revered Mark IIC+ of the mid ’80s established a…

Jon Butcher’s psychedelia mastery

December 5, 2025 · Doug Yellow Bird

Jon Butcher tales his Olympic White ’63 Strat for a rip on “Jam,” a track from his new album, “Nuthin’…

Greg Martin honors Dickey Betts

August 29, 2024 · Vintage Guitar

Tribute licks Kentucky Headhunters co-founder Greg Martin was a senior in high school when he first heard the Allman Brothers…

Blackstar Fly 3

Best In Show… And More

November 29, 2016 · Bob Dragich

While listening to AC/DC’s Back in Black on a small, audiophile-grade table radio, Blackstar Amplification CEO Ian Robinson had an…

Bob Devos

Update on the Organ Trio

June 9, 2020 · John Heidt

Bob Devos says the idea for his new record, Shifting Sands, was pretty basic. “I wanted to record something that…

Andy Powell

The Wishbone Forges on

December 1, 2005 · Willie G. Moseley

Wishbone Ash guitarist Andy Powell isn’t caught in a time warp. True, he’s the sole remaining member of the English…

Keeley Electronics Seafoam Chorus

Keeley Electronics Seafoam Chorus

Side Effects

March 13, 2015 · Tom Guerra

Keeley Electronics Seafoam Chorus Price: $229 (list) Contact: www.robertkeeley.com In a world of proliferating effects pedals, discovering one that does…

Uli Jon Roth

Return to Tokyo

April 24, 2019 · Greg Prato

In the 1970s, rockers were cranking out now-classic live sets with stunning regularity – Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys in…

Yamaha Image

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Some years back, an insurance company promoted itself as “the quiet company.” While they probably wouldn’t like to hear it,…

Eric Clapton in Mayall’s Blues Breakers

A God is Born

October 30, 2024 · Wolf Marshall

John Mayall Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton casts a long shadow in the annals of modern music. Released in 1966,…

Koll Super Glide Almighty

Grady’s Choice

October 14, 2019 · Pete Prown

What do you get when you cross a Jazzmaster, Les Paul, Gretsch Duo Jet, ES-335, and Tele? You just might…

Gary Clark Jr.

Live North America 2016

May 26, 2017 · Oscar Jordan

Gary Clark Jr. has brought back the soaring psychedelic blues-rock guitar solo. After a backlash of post-Hendrix overkill, replaced with…

Tommy Shaw and James Young

Styx’s Crowning Achievement

April 1, 2022 · Bret Adams

“One thing I like about how Styx does progressive stuff is we try and make it friendly progressive, not math,”…

Classics: October 2022

Eddie Quinn’s Gibson L-5

June 14, 2023 · Ward Meeker

Had you been a music-loving resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, at the height of the jazz age, you would’ve caught wind…

Andrew Hendryx on a ’64 Fender Mandocaster

March 3, 2023 · Andrew Hendryx

 Andrew Hendryx Demoing ’64 Fender Mandocaster On a recent mandolin safari, Andrew Hendryx visited a shop in Asheville, North…

Six-String Basses from the 1950s and ’60s

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February 4, 2022 · Peter Stuart Kohman

Electric bass, bass guitar, baritone guitar; four, five, or six strings – many varieties of low-tuned instruments are available today.…

Alan Lancaster

August 29, 2022 · Ward Meeker

Alan Lancaster, co-founder and longtime bassist in Status Quo, died September 26. He was 72 and had been living with…

Rocky Athas

Livin’ My Best Life

May 2, 2025 · Dan Forte

Hailing from the Dallas neighborhood of Oak Cliff, home of T-Bone Walker and the Vaughan brothers, Athas falls closest to…

Mike Keneally Makes the Gravy

June 23, 2023 · Vintage Guitar

Dig his Meaty “Celery” The track is called “Celery,” but Mike Keneally sure makes it meaty! With a splash of…

Xotic ProVintage 5-String

July 3, 2019 · Pete Prown

Over the last few years Xotic has grown its rep thanks to top players who have endorsed its Leo-inspired guitars…

Rich Robinson

Back To The Future

June 5, 2023 · Oscar Jordan

The Black Crowes’ new six-song EP, 1972, shows the band exploring rock classics from that year – the seeds of…

Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk Mk2 & Boomster Mk2

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June 26, 2024 · Oscar Jordan

Jam Pedals continually evolves its line by creating a cool menagerie of point-to-point stompboxes that adapt to a multitude of…