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Luthier on Luthier: Ben Wilborn
On this episode of Luthier on Luthier, I’m joined by guitar maker Ben Wilborn. Based in Reno, Nevada, Ben brings a musician’s perspective to his designs, drawing on his background in performance and composition to build instruments that are focused on tone.
For episode 110, Ben shares the origins of his business and discusses how his instruments have evolved through prototype testing, data collection, and hands-on experience at the bench.
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Luthier on Luthier is hosted by Michael Bashkin of Bashkin Guitars and brought to you by the Fretboard Journal. This episode is sponsored by the Looth Group, Dream Guitars and StewMac.
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Noah Kahan found global acclaim with his Stick Season album – and he’s just announced its followup
Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan has announced his highly anticipated fourth album The Great Divide, kicking things off with its first single and title track, out now.
Arriving 24 April via Island/Mercury Records, The Great Divide finds Kahan reflecting on his rapid-but-deserved rise to global acclaim in recent years, which was supercharged by his 4x Platinum 2022 album Stick Season. That album’s title track was a breakout single which earned him numerous Grammy nominations, billions of streams, and even sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden and Boston’s Fenway Park.
Produced by Kahan’s Stick Season collaborator Gabe Simon and Grammy-winning producer Aaron Dessner, The Great Divide was recorded at a secluded farm outside Nashville, Gold Pacific Studio in Nashville and Dessner’s famed New York studio, Long Pond.
“The last five years have been the single most challenging, complicatedly beautiful, and life-altering of my career,” Kahan explains.
“I was somewhere I understood, and suddenly I was somewhere completely foreign. I was living in the opportunity I always wanted but felt disoriented and unsure of whether I deserved it.
“Writing for this album was a balancing act of trying to go back in time and move forward in the same moment. Songwriting has always been the way I reflect on my life, and I hope these songs show you a glimpse of what this journey has looked like.”
You can listen to the album’s lead single and title track below. A music video will be premiering during Mastercard’s 2026 commercial break at the Grammy Awards, airing this Sunday, 1 February on CBS.
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Brian May says Queen won’t tour the US again: “It’s not what it was. Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment”
Queen wrapped their last US tour back in 2023, but guitarist Brian May says they have no plans to head stateside again any time soon on account of it being too “dangerous” to do so.
In a new interview with the Daily Mail, May explains the band’s decision not to tour America again for the foreseeable future.
“America is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account,” May says. “It’s very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America and we love it, but it’s not what it was.”
Queen have toured extensively in America throughout their career, performing hundreds of times in the mid-to-late-‘70s and early-80s, and with singer Adam Lambert since 2014.
But, Brian May adds: “Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.”
May’s comments come amid heightened tensions in the US as thousands protest against ICE – United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement – following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of ICE agents.
Many musicians have spoken out against ICE and Donald Trump in recent weeks, including Green Day, Neil Young, Moby, Duran Duran, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter and Bruce Springsteen, the latter of whom recently released a new single, Streets of Minneapolis, in protest against ICE and Trump.
Elsewhere, Brian May recently commented on the state of things, saying if people spent more time being creative, the world would be a better place.
“I feel despondent about the world of humans,” he said. “It keeps me awake at night. The cruelty, the ignorance, the lies, the rewriting of history. I think an understanding and love of art and music make it impossible to be the kind of person who wants to go out and be cruel to others.
“There’s so much suffering in the world, why would we want to add to it? We’ve lost the ability to discuss things and respect other people’s point of view, we have a horrendous polarisation. If people spent more time looking at the stars and making music, none of this would be possible.”
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