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T-Bone Walker's Gibson ES-5
The Holy Grail guitars you can see up close and in action in London this month

By Jamie Dickson Published

Stellar guitarists Chris Buck (Cardinal Black) and Chris Turpin (Mirador) will be playing Holy Grail electric guitars, loud and live, at the upcoming Legendary Guitars event in London. Here’s what to look out for…

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Chris Buck and Chris Turpin collage
Chris Buck and Mirador guitarist Chris Turpin to showcase some of the world's most historic guitars at exclusive London event

By Jamie Dickson Published

Famous ’Bursts and T-Bone Walker’s 1949 ES-5N – the guitar that gave birth to electric blues – are among the legendary instruments set to feature

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Chris Buck sitting on the hood of car, playing a Yamaha Revstar
Chris Buck on vintage “dogs”, signature model intrigue, and how rock royalty helped his regal blues-rock tap into America

By Jonathan Graham Published

How many bands take 16 years to craft their debut album? This one did… But Chris Buck and Cardinal Black are making up for lost time

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Chris Buck and Bernie Marsden
Bernie Marsden’s $1million ‘The Beast’ Les Paul was just played on stage by Slash’s favorite current British blues rock guitar hero

By Phil Weller Published

Chris Buck paid homage to both his father and the late Whitesnake guitarist with the performance

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Chris Buck of Cardinal Black performs at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on December 11, 2021 in London, England
Why Chris Buck ditched his Fender Strat in favor of this underrated Yamaha model

By Janelle Borg Published

Buck argues that playing a Strat inevitably leads to tonal similarities to the guitar world's greatest

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Chris Buck and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Slash of Guns N' Roses performs onstage during the Tribute to Barry Goldberg benefit concert at The Mint on April 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California
Chris Buck explains how the Guns N’ Roses guitar hero came to the aid of Cardinal Black on their first US headline tour

By Matt Owen Published

Cardinal Black hit a hurdle when they needed to acquire visas for their maiden North American tour. Luckily, Buck knew who to call on

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Chris Buck sits on a vintage Fender tube amp with his goldtop Yamaha Revstar.
Wrecking old tube amps, thrashing vintage Fenders, Chris Buck is taking no prisoners as Cardinal Black return

By Amit Sharma Published

With their 2022 debut, Cardinal Black introduced the world to a budding guitar hero. Chris Buck explains how its followup has taken his playing and songwriting to the next level

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Portrait of Welsh musician Chris Buck, photographed in Bath, England on March 29, 2019. Buck is best known as a guitarist with blues rock duo Buck & Evans
How Chris Buck and his band, Cardinal Black, took their first U.S. show by storm

By Janelle Borg Published

The blues rock ace remembers how a venue booker in Nashville was astounded when a lot more people than he initially expected turned up for their show

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Chris Buck
Chris Buck: “We were shooting for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon meets Ray LaMontagne”

By David Mead Published

The Cardinal Black guitarist details the gear behind the gourmet tones on the band's crowdfunded debut album, January Came Close

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Bones UK
From bowel-busting riffs to life-affirming 12-string acoustic bliss: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Matt Owen, Michael Astley-Brown, Sam Roche, Jackson Maxwell Published

Herald October's arrival with top-tier tunes from Cardinal Black, Adrian Quesada, Bones UK, Ichika Nito, Bury Tomorrow, Beatenberg, Meet Me @ The Altar, Christie Lenée and more

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