Strings Direct Blog

PLAYER SPOTLIGHT “I think that’s natural, but you’ve just got to make records you believe in”- guitar.com This week's spotlight brings the feature back home and reminds us that homegrown talent still exists and can sometimes and only sometimes be the inspiration to the youth of a generation. It's rare to encounter a gifted musician and a truly exciting guitar player with personality all in one. 🤘Here we have a player that takes us back... read more.

There has been a long held belief amongst blues guitarists that you need to play heavy gauge guitar strings if you want beautiful blues tones. This idea has existed since the very early days of electric blues guitar, and was later perpetuated in the 1980s by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vaughan has one of the best electric blues tones of all time, and he also favoured very heavy gauge guitar strings.As such, conversations amongst blues guitarists... read more.

PLAYER SPOTLIGHT “I always wanted to be able to make the music I wanted to make, and have enough money to buy cool guitars and, that’s pretty much it” Jason Isbell for Guitar.com This weeks player tells a story or two and takes our focus onto a real homegrown, organic, roots, heritage musician. A truly respected player that can cross genres at the tip of a hat 🎩 but firmly plants his boots 🥾 in the... read more.

In our previous blog you may remember that we talked a lot about coated guitar strings. If you’ve been playing the guitar for some time you’ll no doubt be familiar with the concept of coated strings.  These guys are no longer the new kid on the block and have been on the string scene for quite some time now.  But what exactly are they and are they all the same?  Well, wonder no more, we’re... read more.