Sick Riffs: Learn a clutch of killer blues licks with Jackson Stokes’ Slave For Your Love lesson

Sick Riffs #31: Strat-wielding St Louis, Missouri singer-songwriter Jackson Stokes has the honor of being the first artist to be signed to Devon Allman’s record label, Create Records, and was touring with the great man right up until the pandemic hit - since then, he’s even joined in on the odd virtual gig.

For those monster single-coil tones, he’s running a 1998 Fender Stratocaster into an all-original ’75 Fender Musicmaster bass amp, with an Analogman King of Tone in between.

“The coronavirus hit right when we were in California,” Stokes recalls.

“So we trekked it back to St. Louis and have been in quarantine ever since. Obviously, our multiple months of touring got cancelled and affected everyone in the band and lots of the music community. It is a hard time for anyone in the entertainment industry.”

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Website: http://www.jacksonstokes.com/
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Sick Riffs is a Guitar World video series designed to help guitarists affected by the coronavirus. Self-isolating players around the world have each filmed a lesson where they teach you one of their own guitar riffs, up close and personal. If you dig the lesson, we encourage you to buy music and merch from the artist or stream their music.

Michael Astley-Brown
Editor-in-Chief, GuitarWorld.com

Mike has been Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com since 2019, and an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict for far longer. He has a master's degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and 15 years' experience writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as 20 years of recording and live experience in original and function bands. During his career, he has interviewed the likes of John Frusciante, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, Tom DeLonge, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, Polyphia, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young and many more. His writing also appears in the The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock as Maebe.