The blues is a genre that needs to be experienced live, and these are ten albums which well and truly capture the heart of it ...

Why it matters: Blues guitar blends emotional storytelling with technical skill, making it one of the most expressive genres to play. Core building blocks: Dominant 7 chords, pentatonic scales, and ...

From Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s gospel-infused riffs to B.B. King’s precise pick technique and Albert King’s thumb-driven bends, blues rock guitar has been shaped by innovators with distinctive ...

As a supporting guitarist for acts like the Mannish Boys, Lara Price and the late Candye Kane, Laura Chavez has always ...

The US guitarist excavates the outer reachers of the famed collector’s work, pointedly – and beautifully – reinterpreting songs from nations touched by major US conflicts ...

From The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to The Supremes, Pink Floyd and The Stooges, explore the best bands of the 1960s and ...

Black Crowes' Rich Robinson also talks Guns N' Roses connections, Nirvana's influence, future boxset possibilities.

The first album of Jim Hendrix’s band dropped May 12, 1967. In many ways, rock music has never been the same. Blues? Rock?

Jimmy Page already had a habit of working with amazing singers, but he thought this vocalist was in a league of his own. Read ...

These rock songs turned me into a fan of the genre. They are so universal that anyone who hears them falls in love.

Songwriter. Performer. Inheritor of a family tradition. California-based musician Matt Axton is many things. Most of all, he ...