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October 8, 201327Comments

Nobels ODR-S Review

Greetings fellow Gear Junkies! While we were checking out the ODR-1, we also spent a little time with this new little beast called the ODR-S or Overdrive Special (no relation or

by Griff

Gear

October 4, 201371Comments

Nobels ODR-1 Review

Greetings fellow gear junkies! My good friend Steve Araujo from The Bass Hang hit me up to do a video for the new version of the Nobels ODR-1 and I was,

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Blues Artists

Lessons

September 16, 201389Comments

Happy B-Day BB!

There's no denying that BB King was a HUGE influence on me as a guitar player, but what a lot of people don't realize is that the way BB King

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discussion

August 30, 201315Comments

Fastest (Blues) Man On Record…

Buddy Guy seems to be a household name for us blues players, but most people don't know how Buddy got his start and what you can learn from that. I've been

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discussion

July 17, 2013175Comments

I’ll Give It An 85 – It’s Got A Good Beat And You Can Dance To It…

Remember Dick Clark and the old American Bandstand? There was the "Rate-A-Record" part where they would play a new song, and ask a couple of the dancers to rate the song

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Blues Artists

May 30, 20136Comments

Keeping Blues Guitar In The Forefront With Luther Dickinson

There may be a lot of guitarists today that claim the blues as their inspiration, but you don't often see them stripping away all the clutter from their playing to

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Blues Artists

May 28, 20136Comments

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Cookin’ With The Blues

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was one of the most active blues musicians in the last 60 years. Brown played with a number of the best blues musicians around including Albert Collins

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Blues Artists

May 23, 201310Comments

One Of The Early Kings Of The Electric Blues, T-Bone Walker

Have you ever wondered who somebody like B.B. King might have considered one of his influences? You search deep enough in music history, and there is bound to be somebody

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Blues Artists

May 21, 20136Comments

Low Down, Classic Blues From Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones

There's no confusing the real Guitar Slim with anybody trying to take on the name nowadays. Eddie Jones, the original Guitar Slim, had a very short, but also very eccentric

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Blues Artists

May 16, 20136Comments

New Orleans Country Blues Guitarist John Mooney

So what do you get when you mix some Mississippi Delta blues, with the second line beat of New Orleans, and a heavy dose of Son House? You get John

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