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Eric Gales tried to keep his guitar playing a secret – but Carlos Santana spoiled the surprise
The blues great wanted to keep his chops hidden, but one talk show interview changed everything
Meet Eric Steckel, the high-gain firebrand painting a new shade of blues guitar
The Knaggs signature artist has grown an international profile by importing heavy distortion into the blues and bending it to his will
How to let it rip like the late, great Gary Moore
Time to show the Marshall amp no mercy and engage the Tube Screamer – this solo lesson works mid '70s Thin Lizzy into Parisienne Walkways and Still Got The Blues and doesn't hold back
How Stevie Ray Vaughan surprised the son of blues royalty at his 16th birthday
Allison thought he’d lost the chance to jam with his hero, then he noticed a tour bus passing the venue
Joe Bonamassa test drives Gary Moore’s iconic Soldano amp
Bonamassa bought the historic amp head at auction last year
![B.B. King [left] cups his hands to his ear as he asks the crowd for more. Joe Bonamassa, with a Les Paul, gives his crowd a thumbs up.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/P3XrQLh86C27JfPp4AGp6n-840-80.jpg.webp)
“I met him in 1990 when I was 13 years old. We became lifelong friends”: Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to B.B. King
Bonamassa says King was the kind of player who could say it all with one note – “Just one stinging vibrato and you know it can only be him”
Chris Buck on how Yamaha nailed his new signature Revstar – and why you should reconsider the P-90
As a blues-rock player, Buck was told he should be playing something more old-school. But as he explains, the Revstar has everything he needs and more, and you should try one too
Eric Gales’ hotly anticipated signature Kiesel is here
The souped-up signature is Gales' first collaboration with the company after he joined its ranks in October last year
![The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Jimmie Vaughan [left] and Kim Wilson do their thing at Rockefellers in Houston circa 1984...](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QNeXPUasV8vjS8djbycRLe-840-80.jpg.webp)
Texas blues legend Jimmie Vaughan on longevity, Strats and collabs with a Beatle on the Porky’s Revenge OST
A new Fabulous Thunderbirds box set is bursting with powerful stuff by Jimmie Vaughan & Co. – including an entire unreleased album from 1978. Here, Vaughan talks T-Birds and Strats and Fender amps, and tells us what flips his switch
