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“Playing with Bob Dylan was like entering The Twilight Zone of music. You thought, ‘They’re going to wake me up tomorrow because all of this is impossible’”: Robbie Robertson reflects on his remarkable career and the end of the Band
By Alan Paul published
In his final Guitar World interview, the late guitar legend shares his earliest guitar influences, what it was like to get booed onstage with Dylan and why the Band’s final days were so heartbreaking

“It’s one of the most important instruments in rock ‘n’ roll history”: Jim Irsay names his favorite guitar from his billion dollar collection
By Matt Parker published
The businessman and renowned guitar collector has been discussing the highlights of his gear haul

Veteran record producer Don Was names his 5 all-time favorite bassists
By Karl Coryat published
Producer Don Was on his favorite players, how to get a great bass tone, and the most common mistakes people make in the studio

The greatest Strat army in history? Watch Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson lead Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood and more in a historic rendition of I Shall Be Released
By Jackson Maxwell published
Also featuring Neil Young, Ringo Starr, Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison, and captured for the film The Last Waltz by Martin Scorsese, the breathtaking performance features more legends-per-square-foot than perhaps any in rock's lengthy arc

“Bob Dylan knows my name?” Joe Satriani responds to alleged slight in the rock icon’s new book
By Matt Parker published
The guitar virtuoso offered a masterfully diplomatic response to his mention in The Philosophy of Modern Song

Suzanne Vega: “I love the acoustic guitar – I always have. I love the sound of it. I love playing it. I love the look of it. I love everything about it”
By Jamie Dickson published
As Vega prepares to return to the UK with an album of songs from the Big Apple, we join the legendary New York singer-songwriter to talk guitars and songcraft

How Bob Dylan’s infamous Newport Folk Festival Fender Stratocaster ended up in the back of a woman’s attic – and why its discovery was so controversial
By Matt Owen published
The Strat was played by the folk legend at one of his most divisive shows and sold at auction for nearly $1,000,000 – but its rediscovery was met with contention, not least from Dylan himself

Bob Dylan has re-recorded several of his classic songs to be released on an all-new analog medium, Ionic Originals
By Sam Roche published
The patented technology – developed by producer T Bone Burnett – aims to “mark the first breakthrough in analog sound reproduction in more than 70 years”

Slash recalls the time he recorded a guitar solo for Bob Dylan – and Dylan rejected it
By Matt Owen published
The top hat-toting rocker said the legendary singer-songwriter didn’t include his lead effort because it sounded “too much like Guns N’ Roses”

Watch Mike Dawes transform All Along the Watchtower into a mesmerizing fingerstyle masterclass
By Matt Owen published
The acoustic virtuoso, in the presence of Rick Beato, demystifies his approach to rearranging rock hits with a spellbinding cover of the Bob Dylan/Jimi Hendrix classic
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