Latest about blues
T-Bone Walker and the guitar that gave birth to electric blues
The author of the newly released Electric Blues! T-Bone Walker & The Guitar That Started It All, Tony Bacon, joins us to spotlight T-Bone’s personal contribution to the creation of this game-changing style
Jared James Nichols on why playing in a trio opens up your soloing approaches
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Mountain, Rush... Jared James Nichols argues that three is the magic number, allowing guitar players to stretch out and the band to feed off each other
How T-Bone Walker invented electric blues guitar
T-Bone Walker may have been the first true hero of modern electric blues, but he stood upon the shoulders of jazz and blues giants
“Albert King once advised Gary Moore to ‘play every other note’”: Why keeping it simple can improve your blues solos
Peter Green, George Harrison, Gary Moore, David Gilmour... These are just some of the players inspiring this lesson in stylistic restraint, all in the pursuit of the blues
How an art-punk icon ended up playing with one of the blues’ all-time greats
Pre-Television, Richard Lloyd rubbed shoulders with many guitar stars, and had a rather memorable encounter with John Lee Hooker backstage at one of Boston’s premier jazz venues
Why John Mayer might be better than a Beatle, according to producer Don Was
The famed producer has worked with Mayer on three studio albums, and has highlighted the overlooked aspects of his musicianship
Unorthodox, powered by EMGs, Gary Moore's 1982 Charvel San Dimas was the battle-ready hot-rod he needed in the ’80s
Hasty mods made to this Charvel made it a choice workhorse for Gary in the early ’80s – and it fetched over $40,000 when auctioned at Bonham's
Why Jared James Nichols stopped obsessing over gear – and honed in on his playing instead
Freedom, says Nichols, is the knowledge you can pick up anyone's guitar and sound like you, and now the Nashville-based Les Paul wrangler is finding that freedom in songwriting
