Latest articles by Robin Davey
Walter Trout: “I played with John Lee Hooker, with Big Mama Thornton, Percy Mayfield, Bo Diddley, Lowell Fulsom, Pee Wee Crayton… The list just goes on”
The blues-rock legend explains why he abandoned trying to play like Yngwie Malmsteen and Joe Bonamassa during lockdown, recalls the time John Mayall sent him a tape of his farts, and takes us on the emotional road he travelled for his 30th solo album, Ride
John Shanks offers a tour of his epic gear collection and reflects on a career working with the A-list of pop and rock
The Bon Jovi and Melissa Etheridge guitarist and Grammy Award-winning producer talks collaborating with studio legends, opening for Prince and, oh, y'know, some of the nicest guitars you will see all day...
How Supersonic Blues Machine are evolving the art of blues guitar and doing everything in their power to stop the genre becoming a "museum piece"
LA’s superstar blues collective currently features guitar royalty Josh Smith, Kirk Fletcher and Ana Popović – they join us for a roundtable discussing the blues scene, competition, and the pros and cons of the new age of guitar stars
Fabrizio Grossi has worked with everyone from George Clinton to Billy F.Gibbons, Steve Vai to Ice-T. But in the event of an unlikely effects-based apocalypse, which pedals would he save from the flames?
Fabrizio Grossi: "I always use pedals. Why leave all the fun to guitar players?" It's Pedalpocalypse, part 5.
Eric Krasno: “John Mayer sent me one of his Silver Sky guitars and I loved it. It got me back into the single-coil ‘Strat’ world”
LA’s Eric Krasno has both fretboard fire and a prolific pen, making him one of the most exciting R&B-vibed guitarists working today
Steve Vai names 5 contemporary guitarists who are taking the instrument to the next level
The virtuoso picks 5 players who are breaking new six-string ground
