In this issue

Britain’s Best Amateur Guitar Builder competition update.

Best Of British: instrumental acoustic guitar albums...

The Shortlist

The result of our home builder competition grows near

3 mins

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN

He’s the Swedish wizard whose neo-classical flash turned the 80s shred scene on its head. Now, as Yngwie Malmsteen releases new album, Parabellum, he looks back on first Strats, scalloped fretboards, crashed sports cars, and his notorious ‘air rage’ spat

10+ mins

JACKSON BROWNE

A laureate of the Laurel Canyon scene of the 70s, Jackson Browne’s love of guitar has fuelled a 50-year career that keeps getting better. As he releases his latest album, Downhill From Everywhere, we catch up with the Californian songsmith to talk old guitars and new directions

10+ mins

NICK JONAH DAVIS

THE LATEST ALBUM FROM DERBYSHIRE GUITARIST NICK JONAH DAVIS, WHEN THE SUN CAME, WAS RECORDED IN A CHURCH AND RELEASED JUST BEFORE LOCKDOWN–AND IT COULD WELL BE HIS FINEST YET. WE FIND OUT ABOUT THE RECORD’S ORIGINS, WHILE DISCOVERING MORE ABOUT NICK’S INFLUENCES, INSECURITIES AND EXPLORATIONS INTO “WEIRDNESS”...

8 mins

FLOWER POWER

PRS’s Silver Sky broke the internet with its derivative style and big league artist attachment, so the new Fiore has a lot to live up to. Does it succeed? Oh, yes – and then some

10+ mins

THE ORIGINAL BOLT-ON

The Fiore is PRS’s latest bolt-on guitar, but this story began back in 1988 with the short-lived Classic Electric

4 mins

MEETING THE MARK

Mark Lettieri is one of the most in-demand players in the world at the moment. Aside from his edgy instrumental jazz work with Snarky Puppy, he’s also a close musical compadre of neo-funk stars Vulfpeck. We catch up with him to find out how, with Paul Reed Smith’s help, he designed a guitar to cover all musical terrains – and how tins of soup played an unexpectedly important role in the process…

9 mins

Gambling Man

Little Barrie and Primal Scream alumnus Barrie Cadogan admits that the Casino comes with its own quirks, but – as big-name players from the 60s and beyond have shown – if you take a punt on this legendary Epiphone model, it’ll pay you back in spades

5 mins

MYLES KENNEDY

The Alter Bridge guitar man and vocalist recounts how sometimes you can strike gold when working in a music store, and that there is money in horse manure…

6 mins

Custom Gretsch Pickups

Guns N’ Roses’ Richard Fortus gives us the inside scoop on how he developed the pickups for his forthcoming signature Falcon with Gretsch

3 mins

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