• Shawn Purcell’s Jazz from the East (Coast)

    Shawn Purcell’s Jazz from the East (Coast)

    Influences Aplenty! A child of the ’80s, Shawn Purcell grew up listening to Stern, Scofield, and Metheny alongside Zeppelin, Van Halen, Yngwie, and Vai. Here, he shares a take on “Gentle…

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  • Jorge Garcia’s FM Anthems, in Jazz

    Jorge Garcia’s FM Anthems, in Jazz

    Fresh takes on revered classics Joge Garcia’s “Still Crossing” is a collection of stellar instrumental performances of familiar tunes like “Kashmir,” “Little Wing,” and a classical spin through Joni Mitchell’s…

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  • Dan’s Guitar RX: Doubleneck Redux, Part 2

    Dan’s Guitar RX: Doubleneck Redux, Part 2

    Full House: Transcendent Jazz Masterpiece

    In the November issue, we started to refurbish a doubleneck mandolin/guitar I made for Jerry Schafer in 1977. It needed a new wiring harness, tuners, binding repair, new frets, and…

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  • Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

    Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

    Live From the Ryman, Vol. 2

    Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is a special venue for Isbell & the 400 Unit. As their stature has grown beyond roots music, they’ve performed on that vaunted stage more than 50 times in the past decade and recorded a previous album there. This new collection reprises material from their most-recent albums, Reunions and Weathervanes, with a…

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  •  Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai

     Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai

    Bass Convergence

    Recorded at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on their 2024 U.S. tour, G3 Reunion Live reunites the virtuosos who started it all. Three sets plus the encore jam capture the energy and passion of the performances, packaged here as two CDs, a 16-page photo booklet, four LPs, and a 64-page coffee table book. Set…

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  • Michael Manring

    Michael Manring

    Bass Convergence

    Most music fans who learn that the eclectic trio 3Below is all bass players will react with, “You gotta be kiddin’!” However, musicians who appreciate the unusual will stay for a listen, especially given the lineup – Michael Manring, Trey Gunn, and Alonso Arreola. Spearheaded by Alonso on his six-string or a hybrid ascoustic, their…

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  • David Hamburger

    David Hamburger

    Top-Tier Tutorial

    Whoever said, “Those who can’t do, teach” has never heard David Hamburger. Among his two dozen instructional books and videos, Beginning Blues Guitar, awarded Best New Educational Book or Video at NAMM in 1994, boasts more than 100,000 in sales. In addition to supplying music for advertising and TV, the 60-year-old has recorded with Freedy…

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  • Midge Ure

    Midge Ure

    The Unexpected Retrospective

    While guitarist Midge Ure was a member of Visage and was briefly in an early version of Thin Lizzy, he’s best known as the front man of the British power-prog band Ultravox. Ure has enjoyed an active solo career since Ultravox split three decades ago, and the recent three-CD/three-LP Royal Albert Hall 04-10-23 is a…

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The Collings SoCo Deluxe

November 23, 2020 · Phil Feser

Whether you’re a fan of the flat-top or simply appreciate a good archtop, chances are you’re familiar with Collings Guitars.…

Peavey Delta Blues 115 Tweed

Livin’ Large

April 24, 2019 · Pete Prown

Most of us have been so conditioned to accept 12″ guitar speakers that we forget there are good options. While…

The Walrus Audio ACS1

Simple Simulation

July 3, 2022 · Phil Feser

From worship services and home-recording where volume is an issue to fly-in shows where a full rig is impossible, amp…

Henry James Schneekluth

Psychedelic

April 3, 2024 · Oscar Jordan

Henry James Schneekluth handles the groovy guitar parts in Robert Jon & The Wreck. While impassioned Southern rock might be an…

Have Guitar Will Travel 063 – Brendan Byrnes

December 14, 2021 · James Patrick Regan

Host James Patrick Regan welcomes guitarist/composer Brendan Byrnes to the latest episode of “Have Guitar Will Travel.” Brendan is a…