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At the height of Metallica's thrash metal success, the guitarist and bass player wanted to strip it right back to basics
The future blues legend wanted to learn how Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker played. His high school music teacher had other ideas.
The Dire Straits legend heard a blues guitarist moving beyond his influences and into something “really powerful”
Clapton left Mayall’s band intending to pursue an even more hardcore form of the blues, only to spend the next three decades taking the long way back
From discovering Hendrix through his older brother to studying Clapton and Johnny Winter, Haynes traces the players who shaped his approach to the guitar
Slowhand highlighted one player as a champion of the genre — but their friendship wasn't built to last
She’s been backed by Joe Bonamassa and Slash, but who is she backing as the next generation of blues greats?
The Queen guitarist has been named the greatest rock guitarist of all time — but when it came to this late blues-rock icon, even May could only stand back and marvel.
