From the eerie, guitar/keyboard opening to "Jailhouse ... that song was firmly founded in the blues. "The blues songs, it's that same pattern," House adds, "repeat the first line.

Guitar lessons ... descending pattern in bar 1 that’s based on an E major arpeggio, moving down chromatically. The B9 chord in bar 2 is a bluesier variation on B7 (made more bluesy by approaching from ...

The earliest exponents of acoustic guitar blues that we know of include Charley Patton, Son House and Willie Brown. Patton had been born in southern Mississippi before the turn of the 20th century and ...