Dan Auerbach
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Dan Auerbach is one of Ohio’s greatest guitar players, bringing blues roots to the mainstream with a major-league soloing and riffing style
By Martin Cooper published
This video lesson unpacks Auerbach’s rhythm and lead approaches – and mastering it could put gold on your ceiling
Nat Myers is making rootsy blues guitar relevant again – and keeping the one-man ramblin’ band tradition alive
By Glenn Kimpton published
Nat Myers’ debut album, Yellow Peril, was produced by the Black Keys frontman – and it’s a modern-day classic of its genre
How Hermanos Gutiérrez leveraged vintage tones and Dan Auerbach's guitar tech on Barrio Hustle
By Janelle Borg published
Barrio Hustle is taken from the guitar duo's upcoming album Sonido Cósmico – and premiered exclusively on Guitar World
New posthumous Johnny Cash album featuring Marty Stuart and Dan Auerbach announced
By Janelle Borg published
The 11-track collection includes unreleased songs written exclusively by Cash
“People tell me my big mistake was not learning guitar right-handed... No, my big mistake was not learning guitar upside-down!” Meet Nat Myers, the Dan Auerbach protégé updating rootsy blues for the post-pandemic era
By Ellie Rogers published
An unlikely email led the southpaw singer-songwriter to the Black Keys frontman’s Nashville studio. Here’s how they made an authentic old-school blues album – and why it featured just one guitar
Glenn Schwartz is one of America's great unsung guitar heroes – as evidenced by this new single with Joe Walsh and Dan Auerbach
By Jackson Maxwell published
Auerbach says there would be no Black Keys without Schwartz, who was the original guitarist in the James Gang, and would go on to be replaced by a then-unknown Walsh
Dan Auerbach breaks down the guitar playing on 5 classic Black Keys tracks
By Joshua M. Miller published
The prolific frontman, producer and fuzz pedal aficionado at large takes five to talk five, unpacking the stories behind a fistful of the band's most-loved tracks
Marcus King on raiding Dan Auerbach’s fuzz museum, soul singer solos, and chicken pickin’ hoedowns with Brent Hinds and Matt Pike
By Amit Sharma published
The South Carolinian phenom's new album Young Blood is a tour-de-force of blues-rock and soul, and vintage gear to make it all “sound like a tattoo gun”
From somber blues guitar duels to Shadows-esque guitar-pop: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
By Matt Owen, Jonathan Horsley, Sam Roche, Jackson Maxwell published
The best in new guitar music – featuring fresh tracks from Hermanos Gutiérrez and Dan Auerbach, Buddy Guy and Jason Isbell, Fit For a King, Demi Lovato, the Wombats and more
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