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Fit For A King
Editor’s Highlights
Guitarist
Dirt-Cheap Doppelgangers • A brace of familiar Gibson acoustic designs bearing the Epiphone brand name and a price tag of around one tenth of an original
American Beauty • The latest in the DGT family is this handsome 15-watt combo. But do its sounds match its good looks?
Those Were The Days • One minute Gretsch wants to be the guitar for the ‘new generation’ and the next it releases an instrument with roots in the recording studio scene of early 60s. Help!
Tascam Tone • The latest from JHS Pedals captures the sound of plugging your guitar into the input stages of a vintage multi-track recorder
Need For Tweed • ThorpyFX team up with Lazy J to put the amp brand’s signature take on the Fender tweed sound into a pedal
Gas Supply • Our pick of the month’s most delectable and wallet-bothering new gear
Fretbuzz • A monthly look at must-hear artists from all corners of the guitar world, from the roots of their sound to the tracks that matter most
Albums • The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax
Tones Behind The Tracks • On his latest record, A Tribute To LJK, Eric Gales is reminding us exactly why he’s one of the most potent forces in modern blues
Let’s Stay Together • Neville Marten watches a music legend and is reminded how a band of long-standing members beats a group of thrown-together super musos
Back To Basics • Alex Bishop attempts to learn more about the tone-producing role of an acoustic guitar’s back
Tail Blazing • Rob Laing discovers how a whole wave of inspirational pedals owes a debt to EarthQuaker Device’s Jamie Stillman and a happy accident
Altered Chords • Don’t be too intimidated by these naming conventions, says Richard Barrett – we’re simply moving notes out of the ‘parent’ scales
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CHRIS REA 1951-2025 • A slide master with a voice like life, the Middlesbrough bluesman hated the spotlight – and deserves notice beyond his perennial Christmas hit
BOB WEIR 1947 – 2026 • The Grateful Dead co-founder, songwriter and rhythm guitarist, and legend of the San Franciscan psychedelic scene, dies aged 78
MICK ABRAHAMS 1943-2025 • A powerful, lyrical bluesman, the founding Jethro Tull and Blodwyn Pig guitarist always played music his way – even when it hurt his career
FRANCIS ROSSI • The Quo’s motormouthed frontman had no intention of releasing a new solo album. But with The Accidental, Francis Rossi tells us he’s stumbled across his best work yet
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF B.B.KING • No musician embodies a century of American music as BB King did. When he was born, on 16 September 1925, he got his earliest inspiration from music heard on his aunt’s Victrola gramophone. By the time he died in 2015, Spotify had been in business for nearly a decade. His voice was tender yet fierce and every note from his guitar was like a quivering barb of sound – but soulful instead of sharp. Now, a heartfelt new BB King tribute album, featuring some of today’s greatest blues players, attempts to capture King’s crowning, century-long legacy...
RIDING WITH THE KING • BB King would have celebrated his 100th birthday in September last year. But when Joe Bonamassa discovered that the...