Jamie Dickson

Status Quo’s Francis Rossi on baiting the purists, swapping guitars with Badfinger, and why he’s not an all-time-great Tele player

The Brothers Osborne guitarist on how he discovered the Tele, trading up and why bad B-Bender technique is like too much cologne…

Defiantly old-school in his approach to music-making, with a delightfully quirky taste in guitars to boot, everybody’s favourite sideman has a new solo album, Flang Dang

We unpack the magic of the Jazz Chorus, which has been producing reference-quality clean tones and sublime chorusing for everyone from The Police to Metallica since its introduction in 1975

The Glasgow guitar legend talks vintage Gretsch, the rise of Simple Minds as a pop behemoth, eschewing powerchords, and what happens when you play through the Edge's epic rig

If you can’t make the world’s most influential acoustic better, you can always make it bigger. Scott Sasser and Tim Teel of Martin explain the design of the awesome Super Dreadnought

For many players, the Murphy Lab represents the pinnacle of aged guitar finishes, and the closest a new guitar gets to its vintage forebears. Here, the man behind the process explains all

We chart the key changes the Les Paul and its variants went through in its seminal early years

The Little Barrie main man opens up about a stellar deal on a ’62 Epiphone Crestwood and his fondness for P-90 pickups

What is good music? What is good guitar playing? It can take a lifetime to arrive at meaningful answers, as acoustic master Gordon Giltrap reflects when we join him to discuss his powerful new album, Scattered Chapters

The Clarksdale, Mississippi native tells GW how he and Fender blended their ideas – deviating from '70s orthodoxy at times – to create his stylish and powerful new signature model

Gibson’s Mat Koehler has spent countless hours tracing the history of the company’s iconic electrics. We join him to learn more about the first 10 years of the Les Paul's history

As Vega prepares to return to the UK with an album of songs from the Big Apple, we join the legendary New York singer-songwriter to talk guitars and songcraft

As Fender returns to year-specific reissues once again, we ask Justin Norvell what’s new when it comes to recreating the past

The Proclaimers are back with their own signature brand of earworm choruses tempered with that familiar Scottish lilt, and it's a sound that takes many Taylor acoustics to put together

Do these stompboxes deserve their notoriety or did they just get lucky? And how do you get the best from them? Dan Steinhardt and Mick Taylor share their thoughts – and tell us which pedals have gone under the radar over the years

David Davidson of Well Strung Guitars reveals the story behind a bona-fide unicorn for Gibson collectors

The fabled Stratocaster was the rosewood counterpart to the Telecaster popularized by George Harrison – and only two were ever made

Meet the SG Special's rarely seen slab body forebear

Under normal lights, this Telecaster appears to be an unremarkable, late-’60s blonde color. But stick it under UV light and things get trippy...

Dream Theater’s magus of the fretboard on the Les Paul copy that sparked his love of humbuckers and why he might give Django a run for his money…

The sequel to a jazz-fusion guitar classic finally arrives as Saturday Night in San Francisco gets restored for an official release

On his latest album, Solo, the jazz guitar luminary plays alone with just a looper for company, and it turned out to be a learning experience that was a lot of fun too

Tube amps are old hat, right? If so, Blackstar didn’t get the memo – the St. James series transforms 50 watts of classic tone into a tech-enabled tour de force

The Black Keys sideman and songwriter says good things come in small packages: namely, mini-humbuckers and Fender amps