All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like ...

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Buddy Guy’s first guitar cost his father two dollars and only had two strings on it. He would go to sleep with it in his hand, walked around with it and played until his fingers almost bled. He taught ...

Forward motion defines Popovic's work. Across a catalog spanning two-plus decades, she has consistently blended blues with ...

Leon Russell is an American National Treasure. He should be protected at all costs. Leon Russell entered my consciousness when I saw the movie and later purchased the soundtrack for Joe Cocker's Mad ...

John Mayer has opened up on his soloing strategy, explaining that his love for playing the blues has to be tempered by his ears overruling his hands and calling time on his solos to address the needs ...

The blues guitar world is seeing both revival and reinvention in 2026, with Harmony resurrecting the iconic Stella brand once used by B.B. King and young artists like Amani Burnham bringing fresh ...

The first slide guitar recording (and first instrumental blues recording) was made by Sylvester Weaver for Okeh Records (No. 8109) in 1923, the A-side being “Guitar Blues" and the B- side “Guitar Rag.

Joe "Guitar" Hughes, a staple of the Third Ward blues scene for half a century, died Tuesday night of cardiac arrest at Memorial Hermann Hospital. He was 65. Hughes didn't have the name recognition of ...

Matt "Guitar" Murphy, who died Friday, was best known as Aretha Franklin's soul food chef husband and band guitarist in 1980's 'The Blues Brothers.' By Mitchell Peters, Billboard Matt “Guitar” Murphy, ...