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Still Corners
Meet Still Corners, the Anglo-American duo who write Shadows-inspired dream pop while they’re watching movies

By Bruce Fagerstrom Published

Regularly dropping into longform and instrumental pieces, you’ll hear flavors of Westerns, The Shadows and Chris Isaak as guitarist Greg Hughes sticks to one guitar with a chiming clarity

Bands
Hank B. Marvin
Hank Marvin on what he loves about the Fender Stratocaster – and what he would he change

By Hank Marvin Published

Shadows legend Hank Marvin looks back at his favorite guitars – and the models that didn’t quite work for him – to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster

Electric Guitars
Hank Marvin
Hank Marvin: “Cavatina is such a beautiful tune to play. It was a very good moment for me to nail it in one take”

By Joe Matera Published

The hero to an entire generation of British guitarists talks embarrassing moments and his favorite Shadows recordings

Guitarists
Hank Marvin
Guitar lessons you can learn from Hank B. Marvin, instrumental guitar's first superstar and master of the whammy bar

By Jon Bishop Published

Hank Marvin's melodic sensibility and mastery of dynamics is second to none, and this lesson takes you deep into a style that influenced some of the greatest players ever

Lessons
Hank B. Marvin
Hank Marvin: “When I got the first Strat we’d ordered with a ‘tremolo arm’, I was intrigued. None of us had seen one before or really knew what it did”

By Neville Marten Published

Cited by Clapton, May, Page and more, Marvin is the first true legend of instrumental guitar. Here, he talks gypsy jazz, his favorite Shadows tunes, and the genius of Jeff Beck

Guitarists
60 years of instrumental rock
The history of instrumental rock

By Joe Matera Published

We look back at 60 years of the electric guitar-driven instrumental, from Link Wray and the Shadows to Dick Dale, Joe Satriani, Polyphia, Roopam Garg and beyond...

Artists