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“We barely knew the songs when we recorded them. They weren’t even finished”: When he joined the Black Crowes, Marc Ford had no time to second-guess his playing – even when he found it embarrassing

After he was hurried into the studio, Ford’s instincts took over for the Black Crowes’ The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. Now, he wouldn’t change a note. Back then, however…

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“Legend has it that Robert Johnson was recorded in the corner of a room facing the wall”: How to record acoustic guitars at home – and why you need a dedicated setup

Recording acoustic guitars at home can be frustrating and rewarding in equal measure – but it doesn't need to be. Here’s how to get started, and how to get great results

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“If you have a 16-bar guitar solo, please don’t turn into Yngwie Malmsteen orJoe Satriani”: Ian Anderson had some soloing advice for Jethro Tull’s new guitarist

No Arpeggios From Hell!? Denied! What the hopping flautist with the wild-eyed stare told Jack Clark when it came time to track leads for Jethro Tull's latest album, Curious Ruminant

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“I couldn't believe I was playing a guitar where the strings were not attached to anything”: YouTuber builds experimental guitar with floating strings – and it changed the way he played

The wild guitar design took a lot of troubleshooting and the world's most powerful magnet to turn the idea into reality

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“Having played some pretty off-feeling versions over the years, getting them back as they were is more than worthy”: Gibson Les Paul Junior Double Cut and Les Paul Special Double Cut review

Hot on the heels of the Les Paul Custom ’70s, two more blasts from the past rejoin Gibson’s USA line-up. The DCs are back!

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“I met him in 1990 when I was 13 years old. We became lifelong friends”: Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to B.B. King – and shows us why blues starts and ends with the King

Bonamassa says King was the kind of player who could say it all with one note – “Just one stinging vibrato and you know it can only be him”

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“This is what you guys don’t see on the back-end”: YouTuber Phillip McKnight threatened with legal action by guitar brand

Attorneys acting on behalf of Belltone Guitars sent a legal demand to McKnight over the return of a demo guitar – and the YouTuber says he is being made to feel like a "thief"

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“I never got drunk again”: Steve Howe reveals his most embarrassing onstage moment – and it involves his prized Gibson ES-175

The guitar legend proves that he's just like the rest of us, with an awkward mid-gig blunder that's extremely relatable

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“It’s a challenge. But I would say that at no point was it ever not a challenge”: How Taylor is building quality acoustic guitars in the face of tariffs and uncertainty

As the guitar industry faces mounting pressure, Taylor Guitars CEO Andy Powers reveals how the company is grappling with these challenges

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“We were packing up, then all of a sudden he goes, ‘Have you been down to the basement?’” The iconic EHX Holy Grail has been championed by Jim Root and John Frusciante – and now the lost prototype has been found

The classic reverb pedal can be found on pedalboards the world over, but JHS Pedals' Josh Scott has tracked down the first one

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“Will your world end if you pay a little more for something that you really enjoy and use to make music with?” Guitarists are looking for more bang for their buck – but does the cheaper guitar always mean better value?

With so much choice and range in price, is it getting harder to know the true worth of a potential purchase?

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“Flamenco-inspired triplets, big trap beats, and – wait – is that a wah solo?” January 2026 Guitar World Editors’ Picks

Featuring an onslaught of leviathan power chords from Sunn O))), a bruiser of a blues rock romp from Jared James Nichols, a beautiful, heartfelt piece of desert blues from Imarhan, a genre-obliterating piece of twisty guitar genius from Tim Henson, and a whole lot more

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“Doors are immediately opened for us, but once you’re in the room they don’t necessarily give you the benefit of the doubt”: Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons on the realities of making it in the music industry as the sons of two Kiss legends

As the sons of Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, the two are carving their own musical path together under the moniker Stanley Simmons

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“A twist for the fingers as well as the brain”: Players like Steve Hackett are masters of extended chords/harmony – here’s how you can use them too

Today in extended chords 101, we look at 11th chords – both minor and major – and explain how these “harmonically dense” voicings look on the fretboard

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“Anyone who thinks he's sloppy is out of their minds”: Rolling Stones producer Don Was on why Keith Richards shouldn't be underestimated as both a rhythm and lead guitarist

Was first started working with the Stones in 1994 – and the partnership would continue for decades

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“I just said, ‘Sell all the assets…’ not really thinking that this instrument would accrue so much in value”: Facing mounting debts, Nick Beggs sold off the bass he used on Kajagoogoo’s Too Shy – 40 years later his fans helped him buy it back

A family intervention and the generosity of Beggs' fans reunited him with his much-loved bass – and he found a musical way of rewarding them

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Is Gibson about to start making seven-strings and baritones? A NAMM tease all but confirms it

Extended-range guitars are in vogue right now, and Gibson looks poised to give its Victory model a makeover

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“This is the best we’ve ever built. Period”: JHS Pedals says it has just made the ultimate first-stage overdrive pedal – and the inspiration came from a bona fide jazz legend

Josh Scott says witnessing a soundcheck gave him the idea of the Morning Glory Clean – which reimagines the world-beating transparent overdrive

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NAMM 2026: The best new things in bass from the biggest music instrument event of the year

From Aguilar to Ashdown and beyond, here’s a look at the new gear that had bassists abuzz at this year’s NAMM show

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“If old-school country or fingerstyle blues is your thing, you’ll like this, a lot”: Martin 0-10E Retro Jason Isbell review

Characterful Americana workhorse at a sensible price – with a vibey artist tie-in

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“He told Sharon, ‘I know a lot of guitar players. We don’t have to use him’”: Jake E. Lee recalls how his conflict with producer Ron Nevison impacted Ozzy Osbourne’s The Ultimate Sin

The two clashed during the recording sessions – but a compromise was eventually reached

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“I turned around and the wall was on fire in just a small area. I unplugged my guitar and a guy opened the side door by the stage, and I went out into the parking lot”: Mark Kendall on Great White’s two big tragedies, and why he welcomed Nirvana's rise

Great White’s legacy has come to be defined by two-fold tragedy – the Station nightclub fire in 2003, and the recent death of vocalist Jack Russell – but when Kendall, who’s currently battling cancer, looks back, he does so with gratitude

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“He took offense to that and we hung up, and I don't remember speaking to him since then”: Ahead of Megadeth's final album, Dave Mustaine sets the record straight on why he and James Hetfield don’t talk anymore

The story goes way back to Metallica's legendary No Life 'Til Leather demo

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Alex Van Halen shares rare recording of a young Eddie Van Halen playing guitar to mark the late guitar great’s birthday

The sorely missed guitar legend would have turned 71 on January 26

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“It’s four octaves up or down. Some people would argue that’s too much. We’d argue that we look forward to what people could do with it”: How Boss reimagined the wildest effect on your pedalboard

Boss's Matt Knight gives us the lowdown on the XS-1 and XS-100 Poly Shifter series, the pitch-shifting pedals that put the DigiTech Whammy on notice

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