Latest about blues
![Joanne Shaw Taylor pictured with a Les Paul [left] and B.B. King, taking solo on Lucille at the Chicago Theater in 1991](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xcyUro4TZ38XsPtW6NxmwJ-840-80.jpg.webp)
Joanne Shaw Taylor on her life-changing first meeting with the great B.B. King
Joanne Shaw Taylor was just a young kid when she met B.B. King. Now she is paying tribute to the King of the Blues on Joe Bonamassa’s all-star album
Joe Bonamassa leads tributes for musical troubadour John Hammond, who has died aged 83
The prolific blues great once had Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton both sit in with his band
![Joe Bonamassa [left] wears shades takes a solo on vintage Gibson Les Paul; B.B. King [right] wears a cream suit and takes a solo on a red Gibson ES-355 at the 1969 Newport Jazz Festival](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fcHMzdytCgLhP6ivPZHUih-840-80.jpg.webp)
Joe Bonamassa on his friendship with the ultimate bluesman, B.B. King – and paying the ultimate tribute
B.B. King would have celebrated his 100th birthday in September last year. But when Joe Bonamassa discovered that the centenary was going almost unnoticed, he swung into action
Joe Bonamassa is cutting back on his gear collecting habit
Bonamassa was forced to rethink his collection following the LA wildfires last year
Eric Clapton announces US tour – and he’s bringing another blues guitar hero on the road with him
Nathan East and Doyle Bramhall II will make up Slowhand's band for the short run later this year
Buddy Guy and his Sinners co-star play Tiny Desk concert
Merging classics with cuts from the record-breaking film, Guy and Miles Caton deliver a supremely soulful set
What really happened with Cream behind the scenes? Ginger Baker’s daughter reveals all
Nettie Baker’s new book Cream Chronicled debunks a few myths about one of rock’s most influential power trios
T-Bone Walker’s Gibson ES-5N helped give rise to electric blues – and it’s been listed for $2 million
The workhorse guitar from the blues pioneer was thought to be lost forever until its recent re-emergence
What we can learn from Mike Oldfield about breaking free of the pentatonic box
In this lesson, we reimagine folk, jazz, blues and Celtic music for a blues roadmap that takes the road less traveled
![Five contemporary blues heroes [l-r]: Marcus King, Samantha Fish, Zach Person, Philip Sayce, Jared James Nichols.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eB6QVhAGnzFKyhwBXCfJfW-840-80.jpg.webp)
5 modern blues guitar heroes on the impossible task of imitating the blues greats
Blues and rock is still being shaped by the British blues boom of the ’60s – and the O.G. bluesmen who influenced them. But how can today’s players nail their tone and sound? Marcus King, Samantha Fish, Zach Persons, Philip Sayce and Jared James Nichols have their say
