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Jesse Dayton performs on Day Two of 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on April 29, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“A lot of kids are getting millions of hits because they can play Eruption. If you want to impress me, write Eruption”: Jesse Dayton is glad he didn’t have a hit years ago – it might have taken away his freedom

By Andrew Daly published

Fresh from his “Bonnie and Clyde” success with Samantha Fish, the six-string outlaw talks low-string droning, Texas storytelling and why it’s worth struggling with vintage gear – in the studio at least

Jesse Dayton

“I think Leo Fender reinvented the universe when he made the Telecaster because it’s just so simple and perfect”: Jesse Dayton on his greatest gear hits and misses

By David Mead published

Dayton reveals his nostalgic yearning for 1980s Ibanez Artist guitars, and shares his biggest gear-buying tip

Manual Gardner Fernandes of Unprocessed playing guitar in the Thrash music video

“A moment for modern guitar playing” that reaches new technical heights and Spinal Tap’s antidote to the Barbie hype: this week’s essential guitar tracks

By Matt Owen published

Hot new cuts courtesy of Unprocessed, Derek Smalls, Meet Me @ The Altar, Wargasm, While She Sleeps, Erja Lyytinen, Wilco, Big Thief and more

Samantha Fish

Samantha Fish: “I play other guitars, but I always go back to the SG because it fights me just enough. I need something to push back a little bit and she does”

By David Mead published

The blues-rock ace on what draws her to both Gibson and Fender, why all guitar players should learn drums, and how she ended up using an elementary school PA system for her tones on her new album with Jesse Dayton, Death Wish Blues

Samantha Fish (left) and Jesse Dayton perform onstage

Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton to release collaborative album next year

By Jackson Maxwell published

Set for release next May, the album will be preceded by the release of two singles – both covers – in December

Jesse Dayton

Sick Riffs: Jesse Dayton teaches you swampy foot-stomper Hurtin' Behind the Pine Curtain

By Sam Roche published

Learn to play this attitude-driven blues-rocker

Jesse Dayton Premieres New Song, "Hurtin' Behind the Pine Curtain"

By Jackson Maxwell published