What started with a rehearsal room groove ended up an SRV classic. We dissect the anatomy of bassline that walks the line ...

Burl of Burl's Art revisited his amazing project of building a guitar using 1200 colored pencils with a gorgeous new ...

From British blues wunderkinds to soft rock behemoths, MOJO charts the extraordinary journey of Fleetwood Mac via their 30 ...

Sue Foley's inaugural GW column kicks off with a bang! Blues you can use, people. This part one of a two-parter introduces ...

Göransson found a 1932 Dobro Cyclops, which became the hero slide guitar for the surreal musical tribute to the blues, which was shot live as a oner IMAX 65mm. “I grew up with blues around me ...

Distorted guitar tones have come to represent the sound of rock music ever since the early days of overdriven tube amp tones, which were first used by blues players of the 1940s and '50s.

The 17th annual Motor City Blues Festival features a variety of acts, each delivering their creative sounds to the stage. While the singers’ styles may differ, they share a common thread ...

Guitarist Denny Freeman, an anchor of Austin's blues music community for five decades, has died after a recent cancer diagnosis, several of his close friends confirmed via social media (including ...

“He knew one or two chords, one guitar before we started, so you show him the shapes and you show him the strumming patterns ... of Dylan’s ‘Outlaw Blues’, ‘Three Angels’ and ...

Just under a century ago, it wasn’t totally clear yet what was jazz and what was blues, or what was ... practice of playing an electric guitar in single-note patterns, like a horn, barely ...

His latest album strikes a decidedly political chord in response to upheaval and ... iteration of what's been nicknamed desert blues, guitar-driven music performed by the Tuareg people, a ...

The Les Pauls from ‘58 through ‘60 are the holy grail of blues and ... piano and the guitar, tuning it. Suddenly, [I heard something]. When I tune a guitar, I always do an E chord, but I ...