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PLAYER SPOTLIGHT "BONAMASSA'S JUST GOOD. ONE OF A KIND. THE KIND THAT WILL BE A LEGEND BEFORE HE'S 25"— Billboard Magazine This edition see’s us head over to the big apple 🍏. The place where big dreams happen and the skyline glows and lights the midnight shadows in the city that never sleeps. 8th May 1977 was a significant day for guitar culture as we know it, from as young as 4-years-old this guitar icon... read more.

OLD GLORY - BLUES POWER 🤘  When we think about an exciting guitar player what springs to  mind? • It's got to be that killer sound right! - Check ✔️ • The incredible choice of notes - Check ✔️ • The amazing technique & fluidity - Check ✔️ • The outrageous bending & vibrato - Check ✔️ • The expressive and dynamic tone - Check ✔️ • The God like Sustain - Check ✔️ •... read more.

The feature of this edition brings us back to home soil, right here in the UK 🇬🇧; Birmingham, the second largest city in the country and with more canals than Venice it's definitely quite a maze to navigate. Actually, this underrated city flowers from the industrial revolution and became synonymous with the level of UK manufacture, and most notably, the production of metal. February 19, 1948 one of the innovators of metal entered the world,... read more.

photo credit // The Great Frog The journey continues and we head back down to the Lone Star State where the barbecues smoke and the beers are chilled... a place where the blues is firmly rooted but ever evolving. Houston, Texas. December 16th, 1949 was an iconic day for rock 'n' roll...the birth of Mr Rock 'n' Roll Riff, an unstoppable blues machine that takes no prisoners and asks no questions. An icon of tone... read more.