making this month’s mag

ChrisBird

Chris and contributor Phil Capone have been channel ling their inner blues to bring you this month’ s huge cover feature. Together, they’ve covered chords, progressions, rhythm groove sand a whole host of soloing tricks guaranteed to help you develop some authentic blues chops

michael astley-brown

This month, Miked on ned his widest-brimmed hat and set out to track down UK singer-songwriter and all-round talented guitar bloke James Bay to get the low down on his cracking signature model with Epiphone, before hearing it in action at an exclusive gig from the man himself. Join in the Bay watch (chortle) on p14

Rob Laing

When Rob isn’t talking himself out of buying boutique re verb pedals, he’s trying to coax artists into sharing their knowledge on tone, writing and technique. This month he’ s been scurrying into the wild doing that with Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien (more in a future TG) and Russian Circles’ Mike Sullivan (p32).