In this essential video lesson with the guitar superstar, he explains why it doesn't matter what style he is playing – it ...

Back in the '90s, just after leaving Guns N' Roses, when he was slinging his Les Paul solo, Slash hit local LA bars and clubs playing blues standards. The project was called the Blues Ball and, ...

The fusion subgenre known as blues rock came together in the early 1960s in the US and UK. It didn’t really kick off in a massive way until the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which some of the ...

After an accident, New Orleans bluesman Little Freddie King didn't perform for seven months. He'll be back onstage this ...

T- Bone Walker constantly played major thirds and sixths, which are not usually included in the “blues scale.” Photo by Heinrich Klaffs via Wikipedia. Reproduced under Creative Commons License. “The ...

Eric Clapton was on a mission from the start and there was no time to waste. He joined the Yardbirds in ’63, left in ’65 to join up with John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers, and within 12 months he had ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Fender Strat is ideal for SRV-style Texas blues. A Gibson ES-335 will give you BB King or ...

This is a handsome parlour-sized acoustic that certainly has potential, but as it stands, poor finishing and a battery compartment that’s trying to make a break for it every time you strum leave us ...

Matt “Guitar” Murphy, best known as a member of the Blues Brothers band, has died at 88, his nephew confirmed in a Facebook statement. He’d semi-retired in the mid ‘00s after suffering a stroke. Born ...

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Johnny Winter, the Texas blues guitarist who added his own unique current of electricity to songs like “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Johnny B. Goode” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” in the late Sixties and ...

In this essential video lesson with the guitar superstar, he explains why it doesn't matter what style he is playing – it ...