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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Looking Back At Robert Johnson With Rory Block
There are plenty of guys that know how to sing the blues, but there are only a few women who have really taken the time and done their homework about
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Mastery Is Overrated…
You might have heard many people say that it takes 10,000 hours of "work" to master a skill...
I suppose there is likely a lot of truth to that if you
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