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Robert Cray on Animal House, and the origins of the Blues Brothers
Before he came to fame in his own right, Cray played in a band with singer Curtis Salgado, on whom John Belushi's Jake Blues character was partially based
Slash says Eddie Van Halen was a blues player at heart – and that's what made him so good
The Guns N’ Roses guitarist says he’s “always been attracted” to guitarists who take the blues in new directions – and no one was better at it than Eddie
Best Blues Guitars 2025: Play Away The Blues With Our Top Choices From Gibson, Fender, Duesenberg, PRS, And More
We hope you have your best pentatonic licks at the ready because with blues guitars this good, you're going to need them!
The night Eric Clapton invited Richie Sambora to a dream jam session
The former Bon Jovi man opens up on being accepted by the blues community and his heroes, having cut his teeth playing the blues as a young, hopeful guitarist
Scott Henderson on trombone-emulating pedals, and balancing dense arrangements with blues progressions
Scott Henderson spent lockdown training his ears and building improv skills. As his new album, Karnevel!, shows, his jazz chops reached new heights, but his blues-rock roots remain as strong as ever
Keeley Electronics Super Rodent, Muse Driver, Blues Disorder and Angry Orange review
The ability to mix and match different drive and tone stacks on these pedals gives them impressive sonic range and flexibility
Gary Clark Jr. never asked to be a guitar savior
Though he sometimes considers his own solos to be “gross,” the often-pigeonholed player took inspiration from the original G3 trio – alongside a potent cocktail of hip-hop, jazz, soul, R&B, and funk – on his stellar new album, JPEG Raw
“We’re the birthplace of blues, country and rock and roll music, and the guitar is at the core of all of it”: The America at the Crossroads exhibit charts the guitar’s history with instruments owned by Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and more
A new exhibit at The MAX museum explores the guitar’s cultural impact through dozens of significant instruments – from a stunning custom Martin D-28 built for Elvis Presley's estate to a rickety Soviet-era Tonika model
“Sister Rosetta Tharpe inspired artists like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Chuck Berry, and helped give birth to rock and roll, soul, and electric blues”: A brief look back at the career of a perennially under-appreciated rock guitar pioneer
With her impassioned voice and twanging double-stop licks, Tharpe imbued her religious tunes with elements of jazz, blues, and a joyful, hard-driving rhythm
“When you show up to a set thinking you’re gonna hear acoustic blues and you hear tapping on an overdriven resonator, it might make you stop and listen”: Buffalo Nichols on breaking with blues tradition, and charting his own resonator-led path
With programmed drums, samples, some occasional two-hand tapping, and a renewed sense of purpose – as displayed on his sophomore album, The Fatalist – Nichols is taking the blues into the 21st century
