MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons THE BENDS, PART 4 String bending offers us guitarists a highly effective way to evoke a wide ...

Lukather might have made his name in box-office rock and pop, but the blues underpins it all, and this quick-fire tutorial ...

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

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

Whatever your musical instrument need, Blues Angel Music can help you out. Since 1997, retired Navy pilot Jim DeStafney and his wife, Nan, a retired Navy forensics officer, have been strumming ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — While most teens are focused on high school, one 16-year-old from York County is setting the stage—literally—on fire with his talent. Alex Lee Warner isn’t just a high ...

He knocks a rhythm on the body of his guitar to help me pull the licks of “All Night Long” into shape, and shows me a few of the licks and patterns that are central to Bentonia blues.

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 ...

At the Grammy Awards earlier this month, the accomplished guitar slinger was up for his fifth nomination in the best contemporary blues album category for his blistering 2023 release ...

“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 ...