Rhodes played his ’57 Fender P-Bass for the Meet Me in Chicago session at Nashville’s famed Blackbird studios

This is the origin story of Jacob Deraps, the player whose brain exploded when he heard Eddie Van Halen for the first time, and he never looked back

Fifth album Love is Not Enough sees the producer-guitarist embracing modern gear while opposing modern music’s “data-entry” trends – and returning to a jam space filled with Christmas lights and Iron Maiden flags

Neil Thomas’ adventurous playing and ear for unorthodox tuning finds the English collective exist between two worlds of traditional and neo-folk

London songwriter Clari Freeman-Taylor explains the eureka moment of moving to electric from classical guitar, her blood-sealed bond with a new Epiphone, and why she keeps leaving pedalboards on Lime bikes

Luther Allison’s son played with Stevie Ray Vaughan for his 16th birthday, toured in a band where pedals were forbidden, and achieved his ambition of being in his father’s band, and even leading it

The South African musician spent a decade translating the centuries-old repertoire of the West African kora. He emerged with his a unique sound that isn’t restricted to the grid of the staff or the notes on a page

The Ten Years After bassist survived Hamburg’s Star-Club, sparked the blues boom, achieved immortality at Woodstock – and is still going strong at 82. “Music,” he says, “it’s a drug…”

The former Oceansize and long-time Biffy Clyro touring guitarist on his love of off-the-beaten-path six-strings and why you've got to try before you buy