BRIAN MAY - INTERVIEW
The reluctant star of this year's Kerrang! Awards is a busy man. In the process of archiving acres of Queen material and co-compiling an album of air guitar classics, he still found time to have a chat with Guitarist.

SARAH JORY - INTERVIEW 
Being Britain's most successful country artist is something Sarah Jory is more than proud of. But as Mick Taylor found out, it's time she was moving on. It's hard to imagine how you could have eleven albums out by the time you're 26. Or to have played to rapturous applause at the age of 13 in Nashville. Or, come to that, how you could have the guts to record John Lennon's Jealous Guy with a steel guitar solo... Yet these are just three things that Sarah Jory has carried off with equal aplomb in her 15-year career. After being interviewed on Radio 4's Woman's Hour earlier this month, Sarah zipped across London to Bill Wyman's Sticky Fingers restaurant to fill us in on the latest developments.

WILLIE NELSON  - Story by Mike Gee
As the Outlaw reels off the rest of the year, a schedule that would leave most 30-year-olds examining their boot heels for holes yet alone a 63-year-old, 172cm, four-times married, scrawny country muso who's just stepped out of the shower a few hours before yet another show, this one in Louisville Kentucky, history seems to unravel in his voice - as cracked and weather-beaten as the well-worn leather skin that clings to his frame. There's nothing much to spare. Willie Nelson is every centimetre the highwayman; the sad, spiritual poet endlessly travelling Americana, truckstop, pitstop, small town and large, a battered 33-year-old guitar wearing the signatures of his best friends, precisely that. When he wakes up the first name he sees is Roger Miller. Play it again, Sam.

JIMMY PAGE - Promo Interview 12/99 - INTERVIEW 
In this latest Jimmy Page interview, he discusses the new "Early Days" compilation as well as the ongoing possibility of a live Zep chronological project, playing with the Black Crowes and much more.

KATE BUSH - INTERVIEW 1990
She says softly, a charming, unaffected woman in jeans, boots, blouse and jacket you wouldn't remark if worn by a schoolteacher. Her only armour, in fact, is the tape recorder with which she duplicates our interview, perhaps just in case she is misquoted. "I can't say what will be that different about my work from now on, but it feels like a rounding up, a putting to bed, putting all those little sheep in a pen!"

JOHN HIATT - America's Troubadour - INTERVIEW 
Over the past three decades, John Hiatt has emerged as one of America's most inventive songwriters, covering the genres of rock, blues, acoustic, folk and new wave. As Hiatt was developing his own songwriting techniques, artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, The Everly Brothers, Three Dog Night, Iggy Pop and Paula Abdul have taken notice and covered his tunes. In the late 80's, both Jeff Healey ("Angel Eyes") and Bonnie Raitt ("Thing Called Love") hit platinum with Hiatt-penned tunes. Most recently, Eric Clapton and B.B. King chose Hiatt's "Riding with the King" as the title track for their Grammy-winning cd, and Hiatt himself was named artist/songwriter of the year at the 2000 Nashville Music Awards, as well as being nominated for a Grammy for his last cd "Crossing Muddy Waters."

RITCHIE BLACKMORE - INTERVIEW - 1991
He is one of the most inventive guitarists in hard rock history. Nearly twenty years after recording their classic, "Smoke On The Water," RITCHIE BLACKMORE talks about his feelings on being a rock hero at the age of 45.

W. G. "SNUFFY" WALDEN Scores His Own Soundtrack - INTERVIEW 
His music is heard by millions each week, yet "Snuffy Walden" isn't exactly a household name. With the release of his first solo cd "Music By...W. G. Snuffy Walden" on Windham Hill Records, that just might change.

JOHNNY WINTER - Still Alive and Well - INTERVIEW 
John Dawson Winter has been a troubadour for the blues for over forty years, playing his razor sharp licks from the Texas roadhouses where he first cut his teeth in the early 60's through the massive audiences of rock festivals like Woodstock, to his world tours of the present day.  A true original in the Texas guitar slinger tradition of T-Bone Walker, Freddie King and Albert Collins, Winter's instantly recognizable guitar style and gravely roar have gained him a worldwide following and reverence in both the rock and blues communities alike. 

RICK DERRINGER on his days with Johnny Winter - INTERVIEW 
Guitar great Rick Derringer talks candidly to Tom Guerra for Vintage Guitar magazine about his days performing as a bandmate of Johnny Winter in "Johnny Winter AND," and producing some of Winter's most popular albums.  Look for a new book on Derringer and other 70's rock guitarists, due to hit the stores in late 2001.

JIMMY CRESPO - Rock Journeyman - INTERVIEW 
The career of Jimmy Crespo has spanned three decades, from his stellar 5 year stint with Aerosmith to his recent work with Rod Stewart on his last world tour. In addition, Jimmy has gigged and/or recorded with Bernie Taupin, Stevie Nicks, Julian Lennon, Billy Squire, and a host of others.  Steven Tyler has called Crespo "One of the best guitarists I've ever known," and his guitar work is a textbook study in classic hard rock.

RICK DERRINGER - Burning Down The House in Sarasota - CONCERT REVIEW
Starting off with a wicked version of "Still Alive and Well", Rick and his very tight band seemed to cover all the bases, playing flat out rock n' roll, to jazzy (a white hot, cool jazz rendition of "R&RHK"), to progressive to bluesy.

SIMON KIRKE AND JOHN "RABBIT" BUNDRICK - INTERVIEW
I recently got a chance to talk to former Free drummer Simon Kirke and keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick about the new book "Heavy Load", the story of Free. Since the breakup of Free, Simon went on to fortune and fame with Bad Company, and "Rabbit" has played with a host of big names including Bob Marley, Johnny Nash, Mick Jagger, and Snuffy Walden.  

PAUL KOSSOFF - A RETROSPECTIVE
For a scant few years beginning in the mid-1960’s, Great Britain was responsible for producing arguably the finest crop of rock guitarists ever. This era began with Eric Clapton, who first made rock n’ roll musicianship hip with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and later the Cream. These now well chronicled “Clapton is God” years must have truly motivated his peers, because shortly after, a whole new school of heirs apparent were catching our ears. Jeff Beck shook us up with his manic feedback and wonderful phrasing; Peter Green gained admiration for his supernatural blues playing; Mick Taylor excelled on electric slide; Jimmy Page’s composition and layering produced sounds never heard before; and Paul Kossoff gave us his mastery of the understated and his frighteningly expressive vibrato. 

THE JOHN BUTLER TRIO - INTERVIEW  
Interview with the hard rockin Australian three piece. "We have been compared to Dolly Parton on acid, Leo Sayer on downers somewhere between the philharmonic orchestra and Slayer."

JOHN BOTICA - INTERVIEW
John Botica it would seem is still by the traditional musical yardstick of success, largely an unknown quantity. All this may well change with his soon to be released debut album "Between the Shadows". In this interview John speaks about the serving of his musical apprenticeship in the rugged Western suburbs of Sydney to his appearing on stage with the late American songster Tiny Tim.

KURT COBAIN - JOURNALS
If You Read You’ll Judge’
‘Journals’ begins with passion and ambition. It ends as a harrowing cautionary tale about addiction.

JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION - INTERVIEW by Keiron Mellotte 
The Blues explosion roadshow hits Edinburgh at 5 O'clock sharp. Juah Bauer, Russel Simmins and the usually unruffled Jon Spencer emerge looking suitably saddle sore. Introductions are made, coffee is brewed and the cud is chewed. Jon looks every inch his stage persona, but the off-stage Mr Spencer is shy, retiring, eloquent and decidedly well mannered. Hard to believe this was the same strutting rock star, the tortured screaming ghost of Elvis that terrorised the world with Pussy Galore and recently been seen at sell out venues near you!

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