Dave Murray
After 46 years, Iron Maiden is still reinforcing its stature as a legendary heavy metal band. Senjutsu, the British juggernaut’s 17th studio album, has...
Seth Lee Jones
Thanks to giants like Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, and Sonny Landreth, we’re living in a golden age of bottleneck guitar, with exceptional young sliders...
Mike Vernon
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Surf-Guitar Ace Mike Vernon Chills on “Lucky Boy”
Surf-instro revivalist Mike Vernon grabbed his (semi-hollow) Gretsch Tennessee Rose (with flatwounds) plugged into his Roland...
Stroger lays it down on “Bob’s Back in Town”
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Chicago Blues Mainstay and His Legendary Bass
Enjoy as Chicago mainstay bassist Bob Stroger uses his 1960 Jazz Bass (with its original pickups) plugged...
Fretprints: Yngwie Malmsteen
Los Angeles, 1983. The rock community was a land devastated by the bombast of L.A. metal – Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Mötley Crue,...
Bryan Bassett
A half-century after its inception, Foghat has just one original member – drummer Roger Earl – yet the quartet is cranking out British blooze...
Kenny Brown
The Black Keys’ latest album, Delta Kream, is a collection of blues standards from the Mississippi Hill Country. Drummer Patrick Carney and guitarist Dan...
Pasquale Grasso
In the 1940s, jazz pianist Art Tatum wowed audiences with a virtuoso technique that sounded like two players. Today, Pasquale Grasso is similarly approaching...
Brad Gillis
A member of the cutting-edge vanguard that made the Floyd Rose locking vibrato a huge part of ’80s rock guitar, Brad Gillis famously gashed...
Rose Sinclair Swings on a Stringmaster D-8!
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Steel Guitar Beyond Country on “Secret Love”
Rose Sinclair used her ’61 Fender Stringmaster D-8 to play this exclusive piece of “Secret Love,” from...