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Bonnie Raitt on how she developed her celebrated slide sound – and why you can’t teach feel
B.B. King once called Raitt the “best damn slide player working today”
Wolfgang Van Halen goes big on the tapping in new single – and drops music video loaded with an Eddie Van Halen Easter egg
Mammoth – now without the WVH tag – returns with a statement video that features rock royalty, Hollywood-level special effects, and one hell of a song
Mike Dawes has transformed a Sleep Token song into a solo acoustic guitar masterclass
The acoustic virtuoso has already tackled Foo Fighters, Van Halen, and Jimi Hendrix – now he's taking on the hottest act in metal
Fender Japan assembles all-star group of elite Masterbuilders for its most ambitious builds yet
The four high-end builds, inspired by each suit from a deck of cards, represent the pinnacle of Fender Japan's guitar artistry
Joe Satriani responds to Cory Wong's controversial statement about what it takes to be an advanced guitarist
Wong recently stirred the pot by saying that guitarists should only call themselves “advanced” if they know every note on the fretboard
32 years ago, Jeff Ament rented a ’61 Jazz Bass from Norman's Rare Guitars to record Pearl Jam’s Vs. – and now he’s been reunited with it
Ament recently reconnected with the vintage four-string more than three decades after using it to track Vs in the early 1990s – and he immediately played it on stage
Sammy Hagar on his musical dynamic with Eddie Van Halen – and why the virtuoso stopped releasing music in the 2000s
The former Van Halen frontman asserts that EVH flourished as a musician “because he got a singer that could say, ‘I can sing that’”
Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt and Smokey Robinson join forces on their own rendition of a Motown classic at the 2025 American Music Honors
This year's honorees included guitarists Tom Morello, John Fogerty, Joe Ely and Emmylou Harris
April 2025 Guitar World Editors' Picks
From Turnstile’s transformation from hardcore caterpillar to psychedelic New Wave butterfly, to a show-stopping Joanne Shaw Taylor solo, an emo slam dunk from Slow Joy, and a slice of acoustic wizardry from Salif Keita, this month had a bounty of guitar brilliance
