What we now know as blues-rock stems from masters such as BB King and Buddy Guy through to players like Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix that took the genre and presented it to a larger audience in the ...

From Son House to Eric Gales, John Lee Hooker to Albert Collins, these classics highlight how blues guitar has changed over the years – its stories, tones and techniques all passed down and ...

He was for me what Elvis probably was for most other people.” Like all the iconic blues musicians, George ‘Buddy’ Guy came up the hard way. Born in 1936 in Lettsworth, Louisiana, he was one of five ...

By the late '50s, rock ’n’ roll was in full swing – and so for Guild, a ‘jazz guitar’ maker, it was time to catch up. Enter the Starfire electrics… ...

Key areas to watch are the pitching/accuracy of string bends, not being afraid of pauses between phrases, and rhythmic tightness where relevant. I hope you enjoy these examples.

It's the Peggy Lee disease. You'll hear a lot of talk about how much different Turn Blue is from the Keys' earlier, rawer works (beginning with 2002's The Big Come Up).