Jeff Beck

For 45 years, Jeff Beck has been the guitar hero’s guitar hero. He can make his Fender Stratocasters and Oxblood Les Pauls talk, sing, squawk and wail at fever pitch, without ever grandstanding. So in an age where music video games have made pyrotechnics de rigueur, one might expect that a new Jeff Beck album would lay waste to those of his fellow axemen with awesome speed-of-light shredding.