Latest articles by Jamie Dickson
Duane Eddy: “Our echo chamber was actually a 2,000-gallon water tank"
Classic Interview: The rock 'n' roll icon on tone, hit-making and Hazelwood
“I think that the whole band was kind of misunderstood by everybody, and it gave us a sort of an edge, you know": The story of Cream's Disraeli Gears
How Baker, Bruce and Clapton transcended their (and their management's) very different ambitions for Cream to track a '60s masterpiece
"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
Classic interview: Robbie Robertson on The Last Waltz, his bronze Strat and playing in the eye of the storm with Dylan – "On that tour in 1965 and ’66… I have never heard of anybody going through something like that, ever, in music history"
A 2017 Guitarist magazine interview with the late guitarist found him looking back on making history
Ry Cooder's top 3 tips for slide guitar success: "Get you some control"
The don of bottleneck guitar gives his advice on how to do it right…
The surprising history of the Fender Telecaster
In-depth on the birth of the first - and just maybe the greatest - solidbody electric guitar
3 top guitar pedal makers on the secrets of truly great gain tone
From volcanic lead tones to organic, expressive crunch, every guitarist needs a touch of overdrive from time to time
The Fender Strat and Tele prototypes that reveal what might have been
We examine two intriguing early guitars from the big F
Graham Nash interview: “I’ve written songs every way you could possibly imagine”
The British songwriting legend on Crosby, Stills and Nash, writing and Woodstock
Mark Knopfler: "People say, ‘How do you get that sound?’ Well, I plugged it in and then I started fiddling with the knobs..."
Classic Interview: One of the world's most respected players on Down The Road Wherever, his love of cheap electrics and why he's thinking of taking guitar lessons
Howard Alden's 8 secrets of jazz guitar
Californian Howard Alden is one of the greatest jazz guitarists working today
Steve Lukather's 8 tips for guitarists
We got in touch with Steve shortly after he'd finished waxing stadium supergroup Toto's first studio album in a decade, classically entitled XIV, to ask him what makes him tick as a musician.
“Bernard Edwards gave me the dirtiest look...” Nile Rodgers talks Strats with us
Interview: the Chic legend reveals that being upstaged by a ‘kid’ was the reason he first picked up a Fender Stratocaster
How to make it as a session guitarist
Everything you need to know about going pro
Martin Simpson: "I played Jackson C Frank’s D-28. There were 20 middle-aged guys there, half of them were crying"
One of the finest fingerstyle guitarists working todayon why a chance encounter with a vintage Martin D-28 changed his musical life, and more
Under the microscope: Jimi Hendrix's 1967 Monterey Strat - in pictures
As the black Strat used by Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Festival returns from America to take pride of place in a new British rock exhibition at the V&A, we took the chance to experience it up close…
Larkin Poe interview: Megan and Rebecca Lovell on the endless possibilities of slide guitar and playing 21st-century blues
The Lovell sisters have distilled their own brand of musical moonshine from the tangled roots of American blues
Donal Gallagher: “Playing with Muddy Waters was Rory’s badge of honour”
Rory Gallagher's brother and manager on his blues roots and celebrity fans
The Darkness: “We didn’t come here to ride the teacups. We came for the rollercoaster”
Justin and Dan Hawkins talk tone, mid-gig takeaways and their 12th fret border
These Fender Strat and Tele prototypes reveal what might have been
We take a look at two incredible early guitars from the big F
