July 2024

Guitar Player

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The Whole Number
IT ISN’T OFTEN that an artist offers access to their private inner world, allowing us to learn something deep and vital about what makes them tick. Which is why this issue’s interview with John 5 is not just unique but also a gift to be deeply apprec
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Christopher Scapelliti, [email protected] SENIOR EDITOR Art Thompson, [email protected] ART EDITOR Philip Cheesbrough, [email protected] PRODUCTION EDITOR Jem Roberts, [email protected]
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Modern Comforts
FROM THE GUITARS sold under his eponymous brand in the 2000s to his current Novo brand, Dennis Fano has presented the guitar world with some of the most distinctive American-made instruments of the past 20 years. The newly revamped Miris J from Novo’
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Tip Sheet
WHEN KENNY GREENBERG arrived in Nashville in the mid ’80s, the Cleveland-born guitarist fit right into the country music session scene — because he didn’t fit in. “I came from a rock and blues background, so I had my own angle going on,” he says. “I
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How Rock Rolled
VIEWED WITH 21st century hindsight, the two radical gold-finished guitars released by Gibson in 1952 appear about as rock and roll as they come. In fact, that term was barely in use when the Les Paul and ES-295 arrived that year, and neither was conc
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What Doesn’t Kill You
THE BROTHERS OSBORNE went through all kinds of hell while recording their last album, 2020’s Skeletons. Lead guitarist John Osborne came down with tinnitus. His singer-guitarist brother, TJ, was sidelined for a month with salmonella poisoning. The hi
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Baker’s Dozen
IN MY OPINION, Mickey Baker’s The Wildest Guitar is in the top five of greatest album covers. I’ve stared at Mickey’s face, I’ve analyzed what his left hand is fingering. I’ve looked to see if his Fender Jazzmaster is plugged in. And I’ve always wond
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With The Flow
THE CREEK THAT wraps around Sam Evian’s analog recording studio/abode in New York’s Catskills may rise only to his chest, but its influence on the singer/songwriter-guitarist’s new power-pop album is immeasurably deep. The evidence is right there in
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My Career In Five Songs
“WE WERE A work in progress all the time,” Tom Johnston says, recalling the Doobie Brothers’ first era, from 1970 to 1977. The effort certainly paid off: You’d be hard-pressed to find a band with a more prolific and successful eight-year run than the
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Being John 5
ONE MIGHT NOT think that Dolly Parton, Rob Zombie, k.d. lang and Nikki Sixx would share any kind of common ground, but there is something they all emphatically agree on: John 5 is one of the most creative and exciting guitar players they have ever en
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Another Side Of Molly miller
MOLLY MILLER IS working overtime this summer. Yes, she’s reprising her role in pop star Jason Mraz’s Superband, on tour for his latest release, Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride, on which she also appears. But she’ll have to get there early as
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Rebels Without A Pause
DEAN ZELINSKY WAS just 17 when he founded Dean Guitars in 1977 with the single-minded purpose of making better instruments for rock and metal players than existed at the time. Using Gibson templates to start with, he created stylish guitars that incl
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‘People Expect Me To Stay Rooted In The Blues. ‘ BUT I HAVE TO BE MY OWN ARTIST’
AT AGE 25, Quinn Sullivan is already a music veteran. That’s what happens when you begin your career before you’re out of first grade. The singer/songwriter and guitarist has cemented his transition from child prodigy to mature adult performer with h
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Triple Vision
PUTTING MULTIPLE PERCUSSIVE fingerstylists in the same trio could be a three-ring disaster, but not when the ringmaster is the modern master and the others are accomplished disciples eager to serve the greater good. That’s the recipe for Tripliciti,
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From Michigan To Mötley Crüe
GROWING UP ON a midwestern lake, under the wings of a loving family that would watch episodes of Hee Haw, a young John Lowery found the guitar at a tender age. With equal parts innate talent and boundless curiosity, combined with a traditional pionee
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Test of Time
TEJA GERKEN IS a veritable treasure trove of acoustic intel. In addition to being an accomplished player and artist, he’s a top educator and music journalist. Gerken has written for Guitar Player, Acoustic Guitar and Premier Guitar and is a co-founde
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Knaggs
TO DATE, KNAGGS has released several Steve Stevens models, including the SS1 SS2, SSC, SS Severn XF and SS Potomac acoustic. Now comes the SSC-J, a stripped-down LP Junior–inspired affair that has the distinction of being Stevens’ first signature mod
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Rs Guitarworks
AS THE GUITAR world’s original rebel, the plank-bodied Telecaster has provided a prime foundation for hot-rodding ever since its introduction in 1950. RS Guitarworks taps into that aesthetic with its new Slab Lowboy, a stripped-down workhorse of a bo
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Bourgeois
Series is interesting on several levels, and the new Signature models are now at the top of that line. Dana Bourgeois is a highly respected luthier, and his handcrafted instruments are highly coveted, but they come at high cost. The Touchstone Series
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Two Notes
FRENCH GEARMAKER TWO notes (to use the company’s preferred upper-/lower-case style) is best known for creating hardware that processes digital simulations of speaker cabinets and, more recently, full guitar amplifiers [see our review of the Opus in A
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Silktone
CALIFORNIA-BASED MAKER Silktone is best known for its range of small-to-smaller tube amps, but the company does have the well-respected Fuzz pedal in its catalog. And thanks to the arrival of the equally eponymously named Overdrive+, that’s no longer
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Danelectro
THIS NEW DANELECTRO pedal has the distinction of being a reissue of a stompbox that company owner and Foxx founder Steve Ridinger designed and started making at his home in Nichols Canyon Place in Hollywood, when he was just 14. Ridinger says he buil
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“All the Way From Memphis”
FOR IAN HUNTER, the tale of a mislaid guitar has been the bones to the English glam-rockers’ 1973 classic “All The Way From Memphis.” But now, 50 years later, he wants to set the record straight about the forgotten “six-string razor” that sets the ta

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