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Samantha Fish on blues guitar heroes, Slash, and the need to “push boundaries” to keep the art alive. Richard Bienstock. Fri, August 9, 2024 at 9:47 AM UTC. 10 min read.
Foley names T-Bone Walker, Freddie King and Eddie Taylor as turnaround masters and demonstrates a number of key approaches that blues guitarists should add to their toolkit ...
The blues guitarist mentions Muddy Waters guitarists Jimmy Rogers and Louis Myers, Robert Lockwood Jr., and Johnny Winter as key guitar players who mastered the art of walk-ups that cleverly ...
While Slash has a habit of making guitar playing look so easy, it all comes from studying some of the legends that came before.
Joe Louis Walker, a raspy-voiced singer and guitarist who took an expansive approach to the blues, recording gritty, down-home albums as well as acclaimed records incorporating gospel, soul, jazz ...
Chris Thomas King is a blues-based guitarist, a singer and an actor who appeared alongside George Clooney in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and Jamie Foxx in “Ray.” In 2021, he added another ...
Blues-influenced guitarist, singer, songwriter, author and producer Chris Thomas King will take over the Dew Drop Jazz Hall stage on March 22, and his show could strike any number of ...
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, a Grammy-winning singer-guitarist, will perform Aug. 17 at Texas Trust CU Theatre in Grand Prairie.
Trends come and go in pop music. But one thing that hasn’t diminished over the past 100 or so years is the power of a guitarist who can make their instrument sing. If that’s your thing, Joanne ...
Bonamassa has released more than 40 albums, has 28 No. 1 hits on the Billboard blues album chart and has been hailed as “arguably the world’s biggest blues guitarist” by Guitar World.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is not only celebrating music in its new “Storied Strings” exhibition — specifically, the guitar — but also making it. Wilco guitarist and more musicians ...