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Michelle Malone gave up sax for guitar – and had John Mayer “begging” to join her shows
With her 20th album looming, the raw Americana player looks back on working with Albert King and Blackberry Smoke members, her ever-loving vintage gear and running her own label
Rosie Bones on her guitar chemistry with Carmen Vandenberg, Corgan co-writes – and why Bones UK doesn’t need a bassist
Augmenting the rock with electronic elements, Bones UK are dragging it into the future, but as frontwoman Rosie explains, they have one foot in the past, with an old-school blues cat playing lead
The night Rory Gallagher gave the Slash a taste of affordable GIbson via his modded Melody Maker
Modded with a Gibson humbucker, this 1969 student guitar has lived a life, and was the star of the show when Gallagher jammed with Slash in 1991
John Wetton has been the bass force behind a peak-period King Crimson lineup and two prog rock supergroups
A veteran of one of King Crimson’s classic lineups, John Wetton’s amazing career took him through a host of British prog bands
Tor Oddmund Suhrke on guitar lessons with Ihsahn and casting musical illusions with Leprous
Melodies of Atonement finds Leprous taking the complex and making it sound simple – and if that confuses prog purists then so be it, says Suhrke. There is no reversing the evolutionary wheel…
How Glenn Hughes brought his low-end expertise into the spotlight with Joe Bonamassa and Black Country Communion
The ageless rock veteran with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath recorded his most bass-intensive disc alongside guitarist Joe Bonamassa
Los Bitchos guitarist Serra Petale on repurposing ’80s sounds and the tone so good she wanted to eat it
Talkie Talkie is a fun sophomore album featuring stellar tones and hooks from London's most exuberant stompbox enthusiast. She explains why the chorus is sad but human – and always on
A trip on Concorde? Cliff Richard? The story behind Rory Gallagher’s Coral Electric Sitar
Famously used on Philby, the electric sitar is one of the most unique instruments in the Rory Gallagher Collection. Donal Gallagher tells us how he found it and its glam Transatlantic journey home
With Thick Riff Thursdays, producer Nick Broomhall is teaching guitarists how to nail the sound in their heads
From drill samples to car-captured voice memos, the producer and guitarist behind Thick Riff Thursdays seems to have a supernatural ability to turn ‘head-first’ musical ideas into killer recordings
Cage The Elephant guitarist Nick Bokrath on his unique guitar grammar – and the innocence of pedal steel
Neon Pill is Cage the sound of Elephant stretching their legs and finding fresh sonic territory to explore, and here, Bokrath explains where that sound is coming from, where it's going and what made it
