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How I Wrote..."Year of the Cat"

AI Stewart reflects on his beguiling hit, some 10 years in the making.

UAFX

Teletronix LA-2A Studio Compressor

LINE 6

POD Express

MAN OF STEEL

He brought the Dobro to centerstage with his dazzling talent. As he drops his first album in seven years, Jerry Douglas reflects on his gear, career and induction in the Bluegrass Hall of Fame.

HIGH TIME

The new MC5 album took more than 50 years to arrive. The band members have all passed on, but the celebration is just beginning.

58 YEARS OF GUITAR PLAYER

As Guitar Player moves full-time to its online home, we look back at some of its greatest stories in print.

DRAGON TALES

In a Guitar Player exclusive, Jimmy Page sheds light on the amplifiers behind his Led Zeppelin tone and how they live again in his line of Sundragon signature amps.

CLOSER TO HOME

Rehearsal space, studio, vessel and abode Diego Garcia's boat is the home base for his new album, as well as his musical life as the seafaring Spanish guitarist Twanguero.

Funk Noir

With The Black Album, Prince made his greatest-and most infamousmusical statement.

Medium Cool

Striking the middle ground between its Thinline brethren, Gibson's ES-345TD remains a versatile, if underrated, gem.

MY CAREER IN FIVE SONGS

The Moody Blues scored a dozen top 10 hits in their five-decade prog-rock reign. Justin Hayward says these are his favorites.

TIPSHEET

Doing what comes naturally is at the heart of Zakk Wylde's advice.

THE BIG GOODBYE

As Mr. Big calls it a day, Paul Gilbert reflects on hearing loss, his vintage Ibanez guitars and the good times ahead.

POP ART

With Dad Rock, Sadler Vaden crafts an album whose songs and guitar sounds recall the best days of classic rock.

TURNING JAPANESE

Inspired by 1960s budget axes, Justin Abernethy's Sonic Empress THC combines vintage and modern in an offset design that's built for these times.

PRS

PREVIOUSLY PART OF PRS's Maryland-built guitar line, the SE NF3 was recently reissued in the company's offshore-produced SE series. The SE NF3 is so named for its Narrowfield Deep Dish (a.k.a. DD) \"S\" pickups. These unique PRS-design units have deeper bobbins to accommodate more windings and extra metal pieces between the magnets to yield a more powerful \"single-coil\" tone, while remaining noise-free because they are in fact humbuckers. A control set consisting of master volume, tone and a five-way blade switch allows the usual selections of bridge, middle and neck pickups by themselves and the neck-plus-middle and bridge-plus-middle combinations that allow the SE NF3 to veer into Strat-like territory in switch positions two and four.

EPIPHONE

Inspired by Gibson Custom 1963 Firebird V and 1959 ES-355

Dobro 101

A look at the iconic bluegrass slide box.

CERTIFIED GREATNESS

Fingerstyle master Tommy Emmanuel combines unique musical instincts and breathtaking technique to become an acoustic tour de force.

MASTER OF HIS OWN JOURNEY

For more than 50 years, David Lindley graced albums and concert stages with his singular talent on a vast range of stringed instruments. In this Guitar Player exclusive, his musical friends — including Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder and Bonnie Raitt - pay tribute to an original.

TRANSCENDENTAL MAN

Luther Dickinson interpreted a priceless work of art in music. In the process, the blues guitarist wrote his own next chapter.

THE BEAT GOES ON

Together with Tony Levin, Adrian Belew and Steve Vai join forces for a Robert Fripp-endorsed revival of King Crimson's groundbreaking 1980s music.

I'M 100 PERCENT HAPPY WITH THE WORK I'VE DONE WITH PINK FLOYD. BUT...'MY FOCUS IS DIFFERENT RIGHT NOW'

Leading a rock group and being a solo artist were \"not what I asked for,\" David Gilmour says. For Luck and Strange, he assembled a team that shared the weight of his creative efforts. The result? \"The best album I've made since The Dark Side of the Moon.\"

DOUG GILLARD IS INDISPENSABLE

His six-string genius has proved vital to the music of Guided by Voices, Nada Surf and other indie-rock favorites. But all he really wants is to make good music.

Sol Salvation

The genius of Sol Hoopii is preserved in 16 timeless cuts on Master of the Hawaiian Guitar.

Pickup Artist

With its Wide Range humbuckers, the 1970s Fender Telecaster Thinline scores better than most of its contemporaries.

MY CAREER IN FIVE SONGS

Joe Walsh's Jazzmaster, Billy Cobham's bass line... As Bush head out on tour, Gavin Rossdale reveals the history behind a handful of their best tunes

TIPSHEET

We asked Brian Ray for his advice on playing Beatles tunes. After all, he learned from the best.

MAN AT WORK

A juke joint just wasn't in the cards. So Cedric Burnside turned the old building into a studio for his hardcore blues workout, Hill Country Love.

MADE IN THE SHADE

The Gibson Custom Shop created just 59 examples of the Jason Isbell \"Red Eye\" 1959 Les Paul Standard. We got our hands on one of them.