Jonathan Horsley

The Toby Lee St. James TL50 6L6 sports an eye-catching red Tolex covering with cream piping, and a wheat basketweave grille cloth

The boutique US brand also presents new 112 extension cabs with open or closed backs, and offers all three products with black, purple or snakeskin coverings, Celestion Redbacks as standard

John 5 did say by the end of the month and here it is... All Arctic White Gloss, with red binding and an all-white fretboard, it is one of the most radical Telecasters we have seen

The old Elmore James classic brought the house down with Clapton trading solos with Tedeschi and Trucks at the Royal Albert Hall

The guitars evolved into the PRS Standard and Custom 24 but in '84, these prototypes scored the orders that got the brand up and running. Here Smith discusses their evolution

The EP features poet Imelda May delivering a spoken word poem over Midnight Walker Lament and two live cuts, and it arrives ahead of two all-star concerts hosted in Beck's memory at the Royal Albert Hall

Gibson collectors, assemble. This is the Les Paul you might recognise from The Beauty Of The Burst book, from watching Metallica, or from your wildest dreams

Start the weekend right with Bonamassa's rendition of the Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters tune, taken from his forthcoming and as yet untitled new studio album

It would take something for any backing player to steal Little Richard's thunder but then this was Jimi Hendrix...

George Benson says it was his swing. Peter Frampton says it was his soul. John Jorgenson says he was the first to play the impossible. What made Reinhardt so special?

Jake Bowen’s new Mirage set comprises a double-blade Strat-style pickup at the neck, a high-output humbucker at the bridge, and it's voiced for more clarity, more output, more everything

Heidt has spent the past seven years at the Nashville-based guitar brand, and her appointment was met with approval from Celisse, Jared James Nichols and Alex Lifeson

Moon River is released ahead of a pair of Jeff Beck tribute shows and is yet another reminder that no one could wrangle a Fender Stratocaster quite like Beck

The limited edition drive is based on the Keeley Blues Driver circuit Phat Mod and features a Andy Timmons custom voicing. Watch Timmons demo it and Robert Keeley explain its design...

Hetfield and Ulrich tell Apple Music's Zane Lowe that one minute you're bored on Zoom, the next you have a Sabbath-inspired riff, and before long you have the most epic track you’ve ever written

The Tremolo8 covers classic and crazy alike, from vintage US-amp to weird robotic ring mod, and it even has parallel reverb pairings for dialling in ambience and spaced-out sounds

Functional, radical, bold... Mayer has been using a mystery Silver Sky onstage with Dead & Company that sports a series of off-menu appointments that give it a heavy Alligator vibe

The People Pleaser is decked out in an all-new Chaos Burst finish and comes equipped with The Internet guitarist's Chaos Fuzz circuit, Noiseless pickups and vintage-style trem

In a quest for self-improvement, Henson reached out to Abasi for lessons on the Animals As Leaders guitarist’s groundbreaking percussive thumping technique

Laakso was a stalwart of the US indie scene who played guitar, bass, keys, synths and more, and was described as a “musical genius” in a moving tribute from Kurt Vile

Bettencourt takes us behind the guitar album of 2023 and admits that, 15 years ago, he might have “fixed” the Rise solo and ruined it. Now, it's all about letting it rip – about making us all excited again

See The Light: The Jeff Healey Story documents the life of the late Canadian guitar great through all-new interviews and archive footage, and is lit up by his inimitable playing style

“I’m surrounded by Nelsons,” jokes Keef as he joins the celebration concert for Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday

The best guitar solo of 2023 so far gets its first public performance as Extreme rock out on the high seas

“I sounded like someone kicked a bee hive!” said Vai, as Wrocław Market Square, Poland, hosted a little bit of guitar history to celebrate Hendrix and break another record