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Top 10 Guitar Albums

With videos and album covers, here’s a top 10 Guitar Album list that spans the generations, Radiohead to Guns n Roses, Led Zep to Nirvana. Also with selections of Blues Rock records, Jazz, Rock and Indie too.

Al Di Meola, John Mclaughlin and Paco de Lucia

Top 10 Guitarists, Ever!

Choosing the top 10 guitarists has been a joy. And a challenge! The factors being variety of tone and power, live performance, their wide creative range, and, of course, sheer entertainment value! So, Jimmy Page? Joe Satrianai, Jack White? Carlos Santana? Well, let’s see.

The supreme Paco de Lucia, these fantastic worlds

The Guitarist’s Guitarist: Paco de Lucia R.I.P.

Paco de Lucia left us this week. I’ve listened to his exhilarating, intricate and impassioned music for most of my conscious life. He was my mental route out of the suburbs and he made a huge impact on the world around him.

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Fantastic Album covers of 2012

The age of the fantastic album cover is dead. Discuss. Hmm. I grew up with LPs, those lovely 12 by 12 inch formats with magnificent artworks by Roger Dean for Yes (and others), and Hipgnosis for just about everyone else (Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Genesis etc). The most inventive covers drew us into the world of the music and beyond, …