August 2023

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Best Betts
ANY GUITAR-CENTRIC history of the Allman Brothers Band will rightly celebrate the visionary leadership and soulful, expressive slide guitar playing of Duane Allman. From his guitar chops to his larger-than-life personality, Duane was and remains an i
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Duane Betts Steps Out Solo
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND fans of a certain age may remember Duane Betts as a teenager taking the stage to sit in with his father, Dickey, and the ABB in the mid ’90s. But 30 years later, the younger Betts has been around the block a few times, touring wi
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My Career In Five Songs
“KANSAS HAS A knack for distributing parts where they’re needed,” guitarist Rich Williams notes proudly, “rather than saying, ‘We’ve got to find something for everybody to do here!’ It’s just a process of getting everybody involved the right way, not
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Mesa’s Greatest Hits
AS THE MOST comprehensive and flexible amplifier in Mesa/Boogie’s line, the new Mark VII expands on the Mark V’s impressive tonal capabilities to become what Mesa calls its simplest to navigate, most versatile and smallest Mark series 90-watt amp eve
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Tip Sheet
IT DOESN’T HAPPEN often, but every once in a while, Sadler Vaden feels like his guitar playing needs a bit of a recharge. Not that he’s ever at a loss for opportunities to play. Between his main gig as lead guitarist with Jason Isbell and the 400 Uni
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How Django Changed My Life
WAY BACK IN 1974, when I was in high school, I took a ceramics class from a teacher named Mr. Rafello. My specialty was ashtrays. The big perk of the class was that we had a community stereo. Students could bring music to play as we worked. After a m
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Christopher Scapelliti, chris.scapelliti@futurenet.com SENIOR EDITOR Art Thompson, arthur.thompson@futurenet.com ART EDITOR Philip Cheesbrough, philip.cheesbrough@futurenet.com PRODUCTION EDITOR Jem Roberts, jem.roberts@futurenet.com
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Keeping The Peace
DEEP IN THE midst of the pandemic, with touring halted and no clear indication of when the road may open up again, Gov’t Mule guitarist Warren Haynes paced his New York state home like a caged tiger. He had to make some music. Haynes was tempted when
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The Last Rebel
BACK IN 1993, Johnny Van Zant wrote “The Last Rebel,” a song for Lynyrd Skynyrd’s album of the same name. Its lyrics paint a picture of a defiant but tired soldier left on a battlefield: “You can see the shadow of his past written in his eyes… His fr
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Rhythm of Nations
SECOND CHANCES IN music don’t come often, but Nashville-based singer-songwriter Peter One is living proof that lightning can strike twice. In the 1980s, in the West African country of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), One ascended to fame playing music in
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Brothers And Sisters
WHEN DUANE ALLMAN died in a motorcycle accident on October 29, 1971, it seemed as if the Allman Brothers Band were history. In fact, their greatest days still lay ahead of them. Duane’s co-guitarist, Dickey Betts, stepped into the breach and took con
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The Vintage Acoustic Maker No One Talks About Today
UNLESS YOU HABITUALLY peruse the dusty corners of acoustic-guitar specialty shops in search of petite-bodied parlor guitars from yesteryear, you might not know the name Lyon & Healy. But the brand was once one of the most prominent American guitar ma
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Fresh Leftovers
THE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE highlight at this past April’s NAMM Show was a stellar showcase by Santa Cruz Guitar Company signature artist Catfish Keith and his dynamic approach to primal blues. It was somewhat surreal to watch him coax sky-high harmonic
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The Other Brother
THE 1970S CONSTITUTE classic rock’s grittiest and perhaps most prized decade. With the dawn of 2020, it also became a decade full of half-century milestones, with 1973 the current epoch du jour. In addition to herculean releases like Pink Floyd’s The
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Django Explained
STEPHANE WREMBEL IS one of the primary contemporary purveyors of gypsy jazz, the style laid down by Django Reinhardt in the ’30s and ’40s that made him the first global guitar star. He remains popular with myriad “hot jazz” clubs and festivals dedica
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Cole Clark
HOLY HYBRID! WHAT an intriguing acoustic/electric premise, promising the best of both worlds. Straight outta Melbourne, Australia, Cole Clark has been in business since the millennium flip and is probably most associated with Hawaiian superstar Jack
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Danelectro
BACK IN 1959, Danelectro founder Nathan Daniel introduced the Deluxe model, an innovative and low-cost electric guitar that featured a “shorthorn” double-cutaway body made of pine and hardboard, a pair of single-coil pickups housed in lipstick tubes
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Gator Cases
ROCK STARS OFTEN tour with guitar vaults — huge rolling cabinets that open to reveal an arsenal of eight or so guitars, each upright in the rack, ready to be strapped on and played. Conveniently, rock stars also often tour with semis or chartered jet
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Ehx
THE RESULT OF an unusual coalition between Electro-Harmonix, JHS pedals founder Josh Scott and graphic artist Daniel Danger, the Lizard Queen Octave/Distortion is a compact version of JHS’s “big box” pedal of the same name. Created in the spirit of a
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“Long White Cadillac”
“IT WAS MY attempt at gospel blues,” Dave Alvin says of his signature song, “Long White Cadillac.” “I was trying to write something for a recording session that never happened with Lightnin’ Hopkins and the Swan Silvertones. But then I started to wri
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Skyn Deep
LYNYRD SKYNYRD’S ROAD to superstardom began in 1964, inside a small cabin at the end of a field in Jacksonville, Florida. They called it Hell House, which gives you a general idea of the accommodations — or lack thereof — afforded by the intense Flor
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Prs
FOR ALL THE big-name players who have been drawn to Paul Reed Smith guitars, Zach Myers’ dedication to the brand is hard to beat. A faithful devotee since acquiring his first Custom 22 at the age of 14, the Shinedown lead guitarist was honored with h
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An Americana Salute To Vets And Life Buddies
ON HIS DYNAMIC new album, Warrior Life, Nashville-based singer-songwriter and guitarist Billy Dawson delivers a set of anthemic, deeply emotional Americana-laced songs that pay tribute to the members of the U.S. military. To call it a concept record

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