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Celebrating 30 years of the Blues Junior – the Fender combo that came, saw and conquered the tube amp market
Compact, affordable and full of Fender DNA, the Blues Junior celebrates three decades as one of the company’s most iconic and celebrated tube amp designs. This is its story
What Guthrie Trapp learned while escaping the country player label – and how the fretboard can change your life
The session ace explains what’s wrong with modelers, why anyone emulating SRV is doomed to fail, and how he nearly missed out on jamming with Billy Gibbons
Robbie Fulks on the “miracle” of bluegrass and the ecstasies of improv solos
Don’t plan guitar solos, says this acoustic mastermind – let them fly naturally
Robben Ford on his favorite Tele, Dumble magic and why the guitar is a tough nut to crack
The jazz, blues and rock great plays favorites with his gear and recalls that time when he was supporting Jimmy Witherspoon and he took a fall... and took the drums with him
How former Iron Maidens shred icon Courtney Cox found her own identity bringing malevolent riffing to the coven of Burning Witches
Burning Witches' new album finds co-founder and rhythm guitarist Romana Kalkuhl and Cox following in the great tradition of dovetailing guitars. As Kalkuhl sees it, it's a sisterhood of metal
Fresh off his stint in the Goo Goo Dolls, Sammy Boller has a new EP – featuring two-handed tapping and an 8-string he borrowed from Tim Henson
The Detroit instrumentalist phenom's new solo EP comes straight from the heart, with wide-range dynamics and Boller's typically audacious style
How a pre-fame Stanley Clarke helped define an Aretha Franklin classic
Clarke's early session career offered tantalizing glimpses of his technical prowess and innovations, and hints of how he would transform the low-end landscape with Return To Forever and his own solo albums
George Lynch on resurrecting his band, what it would take for him to go back to blues, and chasing that elusive masterpiece
Returning with another Lynch Mob album – despite attempts to ditch the name – the Dokken guitarist reflects on his bad decisions, what went wrong with the original lineup, and the ongoing hunt for his own Band of Gypsys
Up close and personal with Gary Moore’s mythical red Strat – the $330,000 Strat that lit up his performance of Red House
Having just been auctioned for megabucks, we take a closer look at Moore's red Strat, sifting through the myths behind a guitar forever linked to his blazing 2004 performance of a Hendrix standard
