One of my Blues Guitar Unleashed members posted this clip up on the member forum and I think it’s just great. In it, Clapton talks about his use of what he calls...
Most interviewers have asked Robert Cray if he considers himself a blues guitarist. The answer that I have been able to find is that Cray draws inspiration from the blues,...
One of the great guitarists that doesn’t get nearly enough attention, in my opinion, is Rory Gallagher. Gallagher was a great blues rock guitarist in the 1960s, 70s and...
Plain and simple… I love pedals. I have an addiction and I just love how you can grab a new pedal (relatively) cheaply and have a whole new sound. This video is longer...
In honor of the recent PBS special at the White House, “Red, White and Blues,” I thought I would share excerpts from the show with you. Hopefully you were able to...
I recently picked up a resonator guitar and have really enjoyed messing around with it. So I thought it would be fun to do a little research about resonator guitars and check...
One of the most common questions I get about playing guitar is developing a “feel” for rhythm comping. Every guitarist has a different approach to rhythm comping,...
Usually when I tell my students they can write a song in 5 minutes I get a big eye-roll and a “yeah right!” sort of comment. But the truth is that with a little...
Well, I spent several hours at the NAMM show in Anaheim this last weekend (National Association of Music Merchants.) And while I was there I shot some video of some of the...
Keb Mo is good for the soul! He’s a killer guitarist that can tell a great story like blues players are supposed to do. If this is the first time you have heard of Keb...