Beyond mere musicianship, some guitarists transcend their instruments to become cultural touchstones, wielding their axes ...

Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted” documents exactly that, a painter working at the bottom of the swimming pool behind the San Fernando Valley home of Jerry Williams, aka Swamp ...

In this 25th edition of Eclectic Discoveries, get an eye and ear full of some sonic gems, from modern electric blues, to post-punk, to jazz-funk, and more.

It is the same instrument King immortalized with the 10-minute title track of “Lucille,” the blues giant’s 1968 album. B.B. King, blues, guitar icon ... are mirror images that draw from ...

Cross Road Blues' is more than a song; it’s a desperate prayer screamed into an uncaring sky. Johnson’s slide guitar moans like a dying man, and his voice — trembling, urgent — already ...

a blues guitar player. Ludwig Göransson says the score is his most personal to date, and a reflection of his own musical journey. Most of the score is performed on a 1932 Dobro Cyclops resonator ...

while Sammie — cradling the guitar that his cousins told him once belonged to blues legend Charley Patton — prepares to make his debut that night. Intercutting between the twins and their ...

Justin Bieber/Instagram Justin Bieber is sharing some rare photos of himself with his baby son Jack Blues! The “Sorry” singer, 31, posted a carousel of adorable snapshots on Instagram on ...

“It gives me some hope that songwriting and cohesiveness as a band is more important than the guitar shredding and the showboat aspect you sometimes see in the blues,” Hoyer said from the road ...

But his career went far beyond his solo work as he helped form the band Blues Image in the late 1960s. Recording hit songs like “Ride Captain Ride”, the band went on to open for groups like ...

Described by blues-rock titan and mentor Buddy Guy as ... Ingram has wowed fans and critics alike with his incendiary guitar playing, velvety smooth vocals and expressive songwriting ...

Stevie Ray wrote the soulful blues ballad about his good friend Charlie Wirz, who had died earlier that year. Wirz, who owned a Dallas guitar shop, was a mentor to Vaughan. He helped customize a v ...