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Reader Guitar of the Month

Reader Guitar of the Month: The Bourbocaster-211

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Fender American Professional II Stratocaster Review
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Fender American Professional II Stratocaster Review

What Really Makes an Instrument a Best Friend?
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What Really Makes an Instrument a Best Friend?

The difference between a good guitar and a great guitar is subjective, but it goes way beyond tone and aesthetics.

What's the First Thing You Do to a New Guitar?
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What's the First Thing You Do to a New Guitar?

Suuns guitarist Joe Yarmush joins PG editors and our Reader of the Month to talk new guitars and musical obsessions.

Nile Rodgers—The Emperor of “Chuck”
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Nile Rodgers—The Emperor of “Chuck”

The funk-guitar god opens up about cancer, social justice, and the kaleidoscopic 50-year career he’s forged with his fabled “Hitmaker” Strat.

Rig Rundown: Touché Amoré
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Rig Rundown: Touché Amoré

See how Clayton Stevens fuses stinging single-coils, subtle atmospherics, and a tour-tested signature drive to generate his post-hardcore clang.

Hooked: Kenny Wayne Shepherd on Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
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Hooked: Kenny Wayne Shepherd on Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

The platinum-selling blues rocker highlights the Electric Ladyland hit's innovative wah work and swaggering groove.

Hooked: Tash Sultana's on John Mayer's "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room"
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Hooked: Tash Sultana's on John Mayer's "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room"

The Aussie looping marvel celebrates the Continuum hit that sparked a switch from Teles to Strats.

Reader Guitar of the Month: A Strat Comes Full Circle
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Reader Guitar of the Month: A Strat Comes Full Circle

A Hendrix fan details the journey of his first real guitar, a 1972 Fender Strat that he modded, returned to spec, and is now enjoying again in quarantine.

First Look: Fender American Professional II Stratocaster
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First Look: Fender American Professional II Stratocaster

The world’s most iconic electric evolves again—this time with a roasted pine body, contoured heel, rolled fretboard edges, and more articulate pickups.

Hooked: John Osborne on Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing"
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Hooked: John Osborne on Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing"

Certified guitar geek and half of the country-rock guitar attack in Brothers Osborne remembers how SRV introduced him to Hendrix, expanding his 6-string aspirations from '90s teenage angst.

Hooked: Josh Smith on Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Scuttle Buttin'"
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Hooked: Josh Smith on Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Scuttle Buttin'"

The L.A.-based studio ace and blues hound sets the stage about how SRV's power punched him in the chest and forever changed his world.