Many, perhaps most, blues guitarists use the minor pentatonic scale as a starting point for solos. It’s easy to play and you get a typical blues vibe over both dominant 7th chords (C7, F7 etc) and ...

Muddy’s style can be viewed as Delta blues played on electric guitar. For the Muddy examples, use an open G tuning - from low to high, DGDGBD. Open G has the same intervallic structure as an A-shaped ...

Jaxx did by emulating her guitar-playing brother. ... You can learn all about 8-bar and 12-bar chord progressions, ... The Delta Blues musicians present Under the Hood of Mississippi Delta ...

He was recently honored by Gibson Guitar for his continued blues preservation, as well as his contribution to the Grammy-winning 2007 recording, Last of the Great Mississippi Bluesmen: Live in Dallas.

The licks, wails and feelings that define blues music live on in Mississippi. Grammy-winning guitar phenom Christone "Kingfish" Ingram has been key to introducing the genre to new audiences.

A few years ago, blues guitarist Eric Bibb was approached by a fan carrying a guitar case. In that guitar case was a 1930s vintage Resophonic National guitar once belonging to blues legend Booker ...