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Samantha Fish on who she thinks are the best modern blues guitar players right now
By Janelle Borg published
In the past couple of years, the Kansas City blues rocker has opened for the Rolling Stones, joined Slash's multi-artist blues tour, and clinched the number one spot on Billboard’s Blues chart

Mick Taylor's Rolling Stones baptism by fire came just two days after Brian Jones' death – in front of 250,000 people
By Jackson Maxwell published
Jones’ decline into drug addiction in the two years prior to his tragic death at the age of 27 prevented the Stones from touring, leaving them quite rusty – not that that lessened their drawing power
![Texas Headhunters photographed with their guitars in front of. a red brick wall: [from left] Johnny Moeller, Ian Moore and Jesse Dayton](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/acK6RMoZjUGP7aDV4N9yrg-320-80.jpg)
How the triple-guitar threat of the Texas Headhunters is keeping a Lone Star tradition alive
By Jim Beaugez published
With three prodigious gunslingers all bringing their secret sauce to the cook-off, Jesse Dayton, Ian Moore and Johnny Moeller are channeling the blues they grew up with – and taking it to new places, too

Gary Moore's iconic 1961 Strat is up for sale – alongside his ‘Still Got the Blues’ ’59 Gibson Les Paul
By Janelle Borg published
The Gary Moore Collection: The Final Encore kicks off in November and is the last of a series of sales of Moore’s collection that have taken place at Bonhams

Marcus King on true love as recovery, being neighbors with Billy Strings and the Tele he bought while drunk
By Alan Paul published
Darling Blue finds Marcus King getting the band together in the studio for the first time since 2018, putting together a little set of songs that did a whole lot of healing

Robin Trower on the secrets to his signature sound, his Strat headstock theory – and how 007 influenced his new album
By David Mead published
Come and Find Me is another tour de force from the man who gave us Bridge of Sighs but it's a sign of the times that it all started with recordings on his phone

Ally Venable is spreading the Texas blues gospel via a deep-seated love of Stevie Ray Vaughan and her “Wounded Warrior” Les Paul
By Bill DeMain published
The Texas triple-threat on the importance of women’s rights, magenta Les Pauls and “facing your own blues”

Joe Bonamassa announces a landmark B.B. King tribute album with a jaw-dropping roster of collaborators
By Janelle Borg published
B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 features Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, George Benson, Slash, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Larkin Poe, and Warren Haynes

Jared James Nichols teaches you the wild drop D blues stomp he wrote with Tyler Bryant
By Jared James Nichols published
Learn Hard Wired, a fingerstyle blues-rock riffing masterclass that has groove for days

The Imaginaries’ Shane Henry on his eye for vintage gear, recruiting Vince Gill – and trading trucks with Joe Bonamassa
By Daryl Robertson published
From once-in-a-lifetime collaborations to buying a slew of vintage guitars and starting his own pedal company, Shane Henry is living most guitarists’ wildest dreams
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