Latest articles by Julian Piper
"He showed me some things that Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson had taught him – he knew those people": Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf and their legendary blues legacy
Legendary Howlin' Wolf guitar sideman on his hard blues road
"There were guitar players weeping, they had to mop the floor up. He was piling it on, solo after solo" – how Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton changed guitar forever
"When Jimi played with Cream... he walked offstage with this smirk; he knew exactly what he was doing" – we look back at the seismic impact of Clapton and Hendrix on the British guitar scene
Carla Bruni: “I just want to hang out and be a musician”
Carla Bruni tells us why modelling and becoming France’s first lady have always been mere sideshows to her music.
In-demand session guitarist and producer Buddy Miller on his long road to success
From Richard Thompson and Emmylou Harris, to the hit TV show Nashville
In pictures: Rory Gallagher's blues guitars
Although Rory Gallagher amassed a formidable collection of guitars - he is reputed to have owned 121 - as his brother Donal explains, he was the antithesis of a guitar collector…
Steve Earle's 8 tips for guitarists
Steve Earle has consistently served up Southern music as real as grits and greasy greens. Now, 15 albums down the line, new LP Terraplane finds him stalking his own dusty blues backroads
Tele Titan Bill Kirchen on guitars, Brits and more
Bill Kirchen has rocked with everyone from Link Wray to Danny Gatton, but English musicians still get his vote
Billy Gibbons talks BB King and new album Perfectamundo
The Texan six-string slinger on his Cuban adventure
Rory Gallagher: the magic, the modesty and Muddy Waters
Rory Gallagher was one of the most important and incendiary blues guitarists of his generation
