Latest articles by Alan Paul
Steve Miller explains how he ended up getting guitar lessons from T-Bone Walker
Aged nine, T-Bone Walker gave Steve Miller lessons. Crazier still, Les Paul taught him his first chords. Here Miller tells the story... And it involves Chuck Berry, too
Bob Weir: “I’ve pretty much abandoned signal processing. The guitar itself has such variety to offer and it’s so much more elemental”
Bob Weir and company take classic Grateful Dead songs to bold new places on Live in Colorado, his first live album with the Wolf Bros. Also up for discussion? How he and Jerry Garcia dealt with stage fright
Bonnie Raitt: “I didn't see anybody play slide, so I just figured it out in my room – and I put the bottleneck on the wrong finger!”
The blues-rock master takes us inside her bold new album, Just Like That…, and charts her never-ending journey through the world of slide guitar
Billy Strings: “There was a guitar hanging on the wall with a light shining down on it, like light from heaven – and I needed that guitar”
It turns out one of the world’s hottest young bluegrass pickers knows his way around a Slayer song
Warren Haynes: “I go into a project hoping to do no overdubs. It rarely works out like that, but I feel like all my best parts are when I’m playing live with the band”
Believe it or not, Gov’t Mule’s latest album, Heavy Load Blues, is Warren Haynes’ first foray into full-on blues – and it all happened while they were recording another album entirely
Blackberry Smoke's Charlie Starr: "Everybody wishes they could re-record their debut album – unless you're Led Zeppelin!"
The venerable frontman/guitarist looks back on 20 years on the road – and the rhinestones-meets-rock ’n’ soul formula behind their seventh studio album, You Hear Georgia
James Taylor: “All music is reiteration... We just pick stuff up and use it again. I mean, there are just 12 notes”
The fingerpicking maestro discusses auditioning for George Harrison and Paul McCartney as an unknown 20-year-old – and working with jazz master John Pizzarelli on his latest release
Billy F. Gibbons: “We let off steam by letting it rock... Hardware is a raging rocker but always mindful of the desert’s implicit mystery”
Why the ZZ Top legend headed to the California High Desert to seek rock ’n’ roll inspiration
Derek Trucks on how Tedeschi Trucks Band partnered with Trey Anastasio to perform Derek and the Dominos' Layla in its entirety
“Being slightly unsure of how Trey worked, I learned all the guitar parts myself… When we got to the first rehearsal, it turned out Trey had done the same thing!”
16 pro guitarists name the live shows that changed their lives
Featuring Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa, Nita Strauss, Tom Morello and many more...
Allman Betts Band: “We're totally focused on marching forward and continuing our own body of work just like our fathers did“
Devon Allman, Duane Betts and Berry Oakley Jr. prove to be more than chips off the old block
Meet Thomas Tull - the billionaire movie mogul, Slash collaborator and guitar aficionado
"I’m well aware that I’m one of the luckiest people walking the planet," says the businessman and Ghost Hounds guitarist
“It was like watching a Polaroid develop": An oral history of Stevie Ray Vaughan's earliest days on the road
Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Dr. John, Vaughan's former bandmates and more recall the development of one of the greatest guitarists of all time
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram: “I can’t be the kid wonder forever”
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram is the future of the blues. Here, he discusses his fiery debut album
The Allman Betts Band: "This is really about our chapter, and we’re still writing it"
Devon Allman, Duane Betts and Johnny Stachela discuss how they carry the Allman Brothers torch, while forging their own impressive sonic path
Blues-Rock Guitar Powerhouse JD Simo Talks New Album, 'Off at 11'
'Off at 11' is another step toward the 34-year-old Chicago native establishing himself as a contemporary blues rock giant.
How Tedeschi Trucks Band's Triumphant New Album, 'Signs,' Was Shaped by Sadness and Grief
"I think people are really craving to hear someone swinging for the fences."
John McLaughlin and Jimmy Herring Talk New Album, 'Live in San Francisco'
“It was just wonderful, a real joy." Two fusion guitar legends discuss their new live album with GW.
Blues-Rockin' Phenom Marcus King Talks New Album, 'Carolina Confessions'
At 22, Marcus King is already one of the most compelling blues-based guitarists around. Here, he discusses his brilliant new album with GW.
Scott Sharrard, Gregg Allman's Longtime Guitarist, Talks New Album, 'Saving Grace'
Scott Sharrard, longtime musical right-hand-man of Gregg Allman, discusses his powerful new album.
New Photo Book ‘Into the Light’ Features B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Slash and More
Retrospective coffee table tome from photographer Jérôme Brunet is available now.
Doyle Bramhall II Breaks Down His Spellbinding and Personal New Album, 'Shades'
The celebrated lefty, and occasional Eric Clapton bandmate, discusses his fourth solo LP.
How Devon Allman and Duane Betts Become Brothers of the Road
“It just struck me that it was time for Duane and me to work together." Devon Allman discusses how a second-generation Betts/Allman collaboration came into being.
