Guy was one of the first guitarists to use electronic feedback and distortion. Now, at age 88, he has a cameo in Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror film Sinners. Originally broadcast in 1993.

The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans and up-and-comers suggests that the idiom remains very healthy.

Derek Trucks has always been known as a guitar savant. Ever since he started playing with The Allman Brothers Band at 19 years old, Trucks has been playing the blues arguably better than some of ...

It is the same instrument King immortalized with the 10-minute title track of “Lucille,” the blues giant’s 1968 album. B.B. King, blues, guitar icon, dies at 89 “Oh, man!

Recommended He added: “Whatever can help the blues stay alive, I’m all for it, and I will try anything. I said, I don’t know if I’m good enough to do that.

Göransson found a 1932 Dobro Cyclops, which became the hero slide guitar for the surreal musical tribute to the blues, which was shot live as a oner IMAX 65mm. “I grew up with blues around me ...

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.

Described by blues-rock titan and mentor Buddy Guy as “the next explosion of the blues,” 25-year-old Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has wowed fans and critics alike with his incendiary guitar ...

Stevie Ray wrote the soulful blues ballad about his good friend Charlie Wirz, who had died earlier that year. Wirz, who owned a Dallas guitar shop, was a mentor to Vaughan.

Carl Weathersby, a guitarist who came up in the Chicago blues scene and was a protege of guitar great Albert King, died Friday. He was 71. Mr. Weathersby was born in Jackson, Miss., on Feb. 24 ...

Signed up for Slash's all-star S.E.R.P.E.N.T Festival, Fish is one of the players who has found her voice in taking blues out of its comfort zone. Here she salutes her blues heroes – especially ...

John Mayall, the British blues-rocker whose bands included top musicians, died at 90, months from his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.