To get you started we’re looking at some chords in the guitar-friendly key of A. You’ve probably heard of a I-IV-V (one-four-five) progression - it’s a common blues chord sequence and its name tells ...

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Sometimes, guitar tone hacks come from some unlikely places. For esteemed Ocean City guitarist and blues-rock heavyweight Walter Trout, he’s found that the heavier the tone he dials into his tube amp, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — For Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Cleveland has always held a certain kind of magic. Long before platinum records, Grammy nominations and three decades on the road, he remembers pulling into ...

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,” ...

B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends, and the singular identity of his beloved hollow-body Gibson guitar ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The blues musician from Clarksdale, Miss., also talks about his new record label and searching for the next generation of ...

Through a combination of journalistic objectivity, scholarly attention to detail and the passion of a fan, author David Dann accomplishes exactly what he professes to achieve in his 'Prologue' to ...

A disarmingly trippy delight that had the band hoisting their freak flag into the warm psychedelic breeze of the times. LSD ...

Jim Farrell’s documentary “The Torch” is about the relationship between blues legend Buddy Guy and guitar prodigy Quinn Sullivan. Their friendship bridges big gaps in their ages, backgrounds and race.