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Special guest Bob Dylan performs in concert during Farm Aid at Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center on September 23, 2023 in Noblesville, Indiana.
Bob Dylan recruits Jimmie Vaughan as blues legend becomes final guest guitarist during hectic US tour

By Phil Weller Published

The blues veteran becomes Dylan’s fifth guitarist of the tour

Guitarists
Eric Johnson performs in concert during the Austin Blues Festival at Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park on April 25, 2026 in Austin, Texas
“Once you get it, it’s like breathing”: Eric Johnson has a valuable lesson for players “trapped in patterns”

By Matt Owen Published

The guitar great has laid down the gauntlet, offering a simple challenge to anyone who is trying to play more melodically

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Guitarists
Left–Samantha Fish performs at The Amp Ballantyne on October 04, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina; Right–Buddy Guy performs at Stern Grove on August 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California
What Samantha Fish learned from trading licks with Buddy Guy

By Janelle Borg Published

Fish first played with Guy in 2013 after she was coaxed into an impromptu on-stage jam with the legend

Guitarists
Kramer Malina Moye Pacer Deluxe
Kramer and Malina Moye make history with the underrated modern guitar hero’s first signature model

By Matt Owen Published

The genre-hopping guitarist has become the company's first woman of color signature artist

Electric Guitars
Philip Sayce
Philip Sayce on the gear that changed him – and how he learned to wield it

By Charlie Wilkins Published

The high-energy blues-rocker – who missed out on buying one of his dream instruments only to find it again years later – explains what he picked up from Jeff Healey, Melissa Etheridge and almost every player he listened to

Guitarists
Buddy Guy in a red jacket onstage in a club, with a blond Stratocaster, smiling at caemra
If you learn one thing from Buddy Guy it should be this

By Steve Allsworth Published

Get that Buddy Guy-like phrasing by mastering his signature style: rhythmic on-grid and off-grid phrasing

Techniques
Jimi Hendrix in Hamburg in 1967
Jimi Hendrix's roadie explains why the icon smashed his guitars

By Janelle Borg Published

Eric Barrett was Hendrix's guitar tech during his heyday – and witnessed the legend's guitar-smashing antics firsthand

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Guitarists
Laura Cox photographed with her white Gibson Firebird
Laura Cox on taking her sound from YouTube to the studio and the stage – and the release from playing with “real people”

By David Mead Published

Now a fully fledged touring artist with three albums to her credit, the French blues-rocker talks Les Pauls vs SG, studio pressure and Marshall amps

Guitarists
Cream: Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton perform onstage in 1967
The hidden history of Eric Clapton’s 1960 Summersburst Les Paul Standard

By Jamie Dickson Published

When his ‘Beano’ ’Burst was stolen, Slowhand reached out to Andy Summers for a replacement – and the guitar became the sound of Cream

Electric Guitars
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Jimi Hendrix never understood why people pitted him against Eric Clapton

By Matt Owen Published

From the Archive In a rare interview conducted in 1968, Hendrix offered his thoughts on the rivalry that had been forced on himself and Slowhand

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