Latest about blues
Pink Floyd session guitarist says Roger Waters was “resentful” of Eric Clapton
The bassist had welcomed him into his band, but quickly discovered what his fanbase was like
Joe Bonamassa and Slash team up for blues classics in New York – but did their young special guests steal the show?
The two guitar greats played a host of blues classics for charity, but two next-gen stars have made startling impressions
John Mayer pays emotional tribute to Bob Weir at public memorial
Mayer paid homage to his Dead & Company bandmate during a public service over the weekend
When Jimi Hendrix gave Billy Gibbons a guitar lesson unlike any other
Gibbons' pre-ZZ Top band, the Moving Sidewalks, toured with Hendrix for a time in 1968 – and he got to witness the Strat legend's magic up close
“Sometimes simplicity wins the day”: Joe Bonamassa on the art of writing a heavy guitar riff
In his latest GW video lesson, the blues-rock superstar recalls how some of his heaviest riffs came together, and to your shock – and maybe even horror – they were written in standard tuning
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
