Guitarist

Guitarist is the longest established UK guitar magazine. You'll find authoritative gear reviews, artist interviews, technique lessons and advice. Plus, Guitarist's digital edition now includes all of the same audio and video content as the print edition; available to download from a special area of the Guitarist website!

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Editor’s Highlights

Guitarist

Look Sharp • Tanglewood Guitars in the UK commissioned veteran guitar designer Gary Levinson to create a range of affordable but contemporary guitars. Here’s the result

Master Of Reality • The latest from Laney’s flagship UK-designed and made Supergroup range offers real vintage valve tone combined with Two Notes cab emulation

Fly Drive • A new approach to clipping circuits from Kernom aims to offer all the overdrive sounds you need in a single pedal

Eccentric Echo • It might be small, but Free The Tone’s latest has all the facilities to really shape the sound of your delay trails

the Wishlist • Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...

Gas Supply • Our pick of the month’s most delectable and wallet-bothering new gear

Fretbuzz • A monthly look at must-hear artists from all corners of the guitar world, from the roots of their sound to the tracks that matter most

Albums • The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Tones Behind The Tracks • With a focus on storytelling and an unexpectedly precious mid-70s Strat, blues-rocker Aynsley Lister presents album number eight

Nowt So Strange As Folk • Neville Marten remembers a few of the guitars that went through his hands as a repairer – along with the customers who owned them

In Good Company • After a month travelling the country visiting guitar shows, Alex Bishop reflects on the vibrant UK lutherie scene

Sweat The Small Stuff • Could your gear be a tweak away from perfection? Paying attention to the details can sometimes help you avoid a big pay out, says Huw Price

The Lydian Tonality • Richard Barrett puts the spotlight onto the Lydian mode and how its chords and tonality can pop up to influence the mood

WILKO JOHNSON 1947-2022 • The beloved Dr Feelgood guitarist left us on 21 November 2022. We salute the livewire stage presence and piston-pump guitar style that lit the fuse of punk

Feedback • Your letters to the Guitarist editor. Drop us a line at guitarist@futurenet.com

ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW • Defiantly old-school in his approach to music making, with a delightfully quirky taste in guitars to boot, everybody’s favourite sideman has a new solo album, Flang Dang, poised for release

TELEVISION

TELECASTER TALES • During a visit to Long Island’s Well Strung Guitars, we discovered four rare examples of the Telecaster/Esquire family that prove not only how adaptable Leo’s classic single-cut is but how deeply it is ingrained in the lives of musicians and their families down the generations

SIMPLE PLEASURES • John Osborne of The Brothers Osborne on discovering the Tele, trading up and why bad B-Bender technique is like too much cologne…

T-TIME • The Telecaster was the original testbed solidbody electric guitar and it offers more scope for modding than any other model. Here are our top tips for curing common problems, improving playability and customising your Tele tone

COUNTRY KING • ’Caster master Marty Stuart recounts a half-century love affair with the snub-nosed Fender model, from falling for the twang and surviving the honky-tonks, to the spookiest session with his iconic ‘Clarence’ Tele

GREEN FINGERS • Status Quo’s Francis Rossi on baiting the purists, swapping guitars with Badfinger, and why he’s not an...