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"It's guitar music, but it's for everyone"

Yvette Young is one of the most original guitarists on the planet - combining innovation with accessibility in a new Covet album. But she admits: "I've always felt like an outsider to the guitar world..."

ALLAN HOLDSWORTH Video Masterclass

Australian maestro Brett Garsed pays tribute to the talent of the sadly departed Allan Holdsworth, with a video masterclass guided

BILL FRISELL

Guitar instrumentals have supplied some of music's most evocative moments. Jason Sidwell asks top guitarists for their take on this iconic movement. This month, we welcome one of the great modern jazz innovators

JOSÉ FERRER: Ejercicio No.7 in E Minor

Here Declan Zapala returns to Romantic-era Catalonia to explore some bitesize building blocks of classical guitar technique through this short and chirpy study

THE CROSSROADS Roy Buchanan

For this month's meeting down at the Crossroads, John Wheatcroft shows us 10 top techniques from the country-blues Telemaster himself

HUBERT SUMLIN

David Gerrish explores the pioneering style of the man that was able to hold his own next to the immortal Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters

TIM HENSON

Play God and become a G.O.A.T. with the technical and creative brilliance of Polyphia, with Charlie Griffiths as your guide

THIN LIZZY

This month Martin Cooper checks out the classic sound of Thin Lizzy, with the twin-guitar assault of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson

ARIELLE

A minute's all it takes to discover what makes a great guitarist tick. Before she jumped into her limo for the airport, we grabbed a quick chat with the US singer-songwriter, guitar player, and Brian May Guitars artist

PLAY LIKE...DAVID GILMOUR

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, Jamie Humphries analyses the playing of David Gilmour, with five stylistic mini pieces.

MITCH DALTON

The studio guitarist's guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related by our resident session ace

TASTY SOLOING

In the first column of a new series from LCCM's Andy G Jones we focus on one of the pillars of modern blues, the great innovator T-Bone Walker

A DIRECT LINE TO HEAVEN

As a guitarist, singer-songwriter and civil rights visionary who brought Black and White music together, Pops Staples created his own genre and the quintessential Americana guitar tone.

Torch Bearer

Ben Webster’s Warm Moods is a searing lesson in melody and skillful phrasing.

Euro Trip

This Wandre Roby is a groovy relic from the 1960s Italian guitar maker.

SPECIAL DELIVERY MAN

A look at the inspiring musical magic and distinctive touch in the playing of guitar legend Joe Walsh.

DONNER

DJP-1000

GIBSON

Les Paul Traditional Pro V

PRS

Sonzera 20 Combo

ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS

They've sold millions of records in Europe and the U.K. With Rush!, Rome's Måneskin are introducing American ears to their infectious brand of glam-rock revivalism.

THRILL OF THE HUNT

On Dripfield, jam-band breakouts Goose let their muse lead them outside their comfort zone. Says guitarist Rick Mitarotonda, \"We chase what we hear.\"

TIP SHEET

These are the habits that have made Steve Howe a stylistic and technical virtuoso.

GARY ROSSINGTON 1951-2023

The survivor of the infamous Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash, who helmed the band for a further three decades and gave countless gunslingers their start, has died aged 71

SOUND AND VISION

Timeless in tone and style yet built with advanced lutherie techniques, Furch Guitars deserves your serious attention. We travel to the Czech Republic to find out more…

Black Country

Based on the Takamine used by Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi, the GD34CE has all of its stablemate’s classic good looks on a budget. But how does it sound?

HÖFNER S7L

How a little known and short-lived guitar from Höfner found its way into the hands of The Stranglers’ Hugh Cornwell around the time of the band’s hit Golden Brown

DAVID LINDLEY 1944-2023

Remembering maxi-instrumentalist slide guitar master David Lindley, who died at the age of 78 after a long illness

Made To Measure

Most of us are happy with off-the-shelf guitar designs, but there’s nothing quite like ordering up your own custom-made guitar. We ask Maybury Guitars to build us one!

RESURRECTION DAYS

After a career peppered with notable successes – and a fair few line-up changes and fall-outs – in the mid-80s Kansas came close to being dead and buried. But, taking the advice of their most famous song title, they picked themselves up and carried on…

GARY ROSSINGTON - December 4, 1951 - March 5, 2023

We look back at the life, times and music of the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist who survived the band's plane crash in 1977, and also survived all the band's other founder members.