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Gibson revives and refreshes its Songwriter Recording Artist acoustic range
By Phil Weller published
Two new models, with and without cutaways, blend vintage Gibson tones with a modern dreadnought shape and L.R. Baggs electronics for a best of both worlds approach

How the Gibson ES-5 paved the way for a new wave of electric blues (and maybe even the Strat, too)
By David Davidson published
In the vintage market, the big-box jazz guitars are less sought after but this pair of Gibson ES-5s are holy grails in anyone’s book – especially disciples of T-Bone Walker

Gibson unearths the only known Kalamazoo factory footage from the ‘Golden Era’ of guitar building
By Phil Weller published
The video offers a fascinating insight into how the Gibson factory operated in the 1950s

The Beatles made the Leslie speaker an iconic guitar tone. But a pioneering “all-female” rock band were one of the first to take it out on the road
By Janelle Borg published
June Millington, one of the co-founders of the 1970s LA-based band Fanny, heard the Let It Be demo and was set on incorporating a Leslie speaker into her rig

“Surely the most vicious artist series model in the Gibson catalog”: Gibson Mark Morton Les Paul Modern Quilt review
By Jonathan Horsley published
Lamb of God riff-master Mark Morton's Les Paul has been years in the making, subject to brutal road-testing, featuring a hot custom-wound humbucker pairing, but it's finally here

T-Bone Walker’s Gibson ES-5N helped give rise to electric blues – and it’s been listed for $2 million
By Phil Weller published
The workhorse guitar from the blues pioneer was thought to be lost forever until its recent re-emergence

Gibson honors Mick Ronson with limited-edition recreation of his iconic David Bowie Les Paul
By Phil Weller published
The release is limited to just 100 copies, celebrating that guitarist that helped immortalize a rock ’n’ roll icon

Joe Perry on the painful memory of selling his ’Burst – and why he’ll never forget the moment it came back to him
By Janelle Borg published
The Aerosmith guitarist was forced to sell his most cherished guitar in the late-’70s and spent years trying to get it back, until Slash made the ultimate guitar collector sacrifice
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