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American blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan on stage at Bishopstock Blues Festival, UK, 2000. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images)
"When I play with a pick and without a capo, I have a tendency to go right over to B.B. King's or Buddy Guy's house. I can't help it. But when I use the capo, I think I sound more like me." Jimmie Vaughan's wicked tone secrets

By Art Thompson Published

One from the Guitar Player archives: a 1998 interview with Jimmie Vaughan on tone, recording secrets, fat strings and more…

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Selwyn Birchwood and a Gibson guitar
20 years ago, seeing Buddy Guy changed his life. Now Selwyn Birchwood is an award-winning guitarist who's played with Buddy and recorded with his producer…

By Vinnie DeMasi Published

Selwyn Birchwood went to his first blues gig, aged 18. Ten years later, he won the Blues Foundation's Best Guitarist Award. 10 years on from that, his new album Exorcist is one of the blues albums of the year

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Ally Venable
“I Want to Be an Inspiration to Young Girls”: Blues Phenom Ally Venable Steps up to the Big Leagues With New Album, ‘Real Gone’

By Joe Bosso Published

“If I can be a role model to girls and get them to pick up the guitar, then I’ll feel like I made a real impact,” says the Les Paul-toting Texan

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Buddy Guy performs at Stern Grove in San Francisco, California on August 6, 2023
"B.B. King Had a Left Hand That Could Do Things That Were Not of This Earth. I Knew I Could Never Do Any of That": Blues Legend Buddy Guy Explains How Learning What He Could (and Couldn't) Do from His Guitar Heroes Shaped His Unique Style

By Jackson Maxwell Published

While taking cues from some of his heroes, Guy also made sure that he simultaneously developed his own voice on the instrument, saying "I’ve got to do something different from them or I’m done for."

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Eddy Clearwater poses for a studio portrait in 1975, holding a Fender Telecaster guitar, in the United States.
Ten of the Greatest Chicago Blues Songs

By Guitar Player Staff Published

Return to the source of inspiration with these Windy City blues guitar classics

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Guy performs on the Blues Tent stage during the 40th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, May 3, 2009.
“I’ve Dedicated My Life to the Blues, and a Lot of Other People Have, Too. What Did We Do to Be Treated Like That?”: Buddy Guy Has, Most Definitely, Still Got the Blues

By Gary Graff Published

“I’ve kept doing it so people don’t forget Muddy and Wolf, B.B. – all the rest of ’em,” says the Strat-toting blues guru

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Buddy Guy performs onstage at the 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on May 04, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Anybody Would Say, ‘That’s Enough”: At 86, Buddy Guy Says It’s Finally Time to Come off the Road

By Gary Graff Published

“I’m still going to probably play some of the big festivals,” maintains the blues guitar legend

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Buddy Guy performs on the American Folk Blues Festival tour in London, October 1965
“He Said, ‘I Just Canceled a Gig, ’Cause I Wanted to See You’”: Buddy Guy Talks Befriending Jimi Hendrix

By Gary Graff Published

How the blues icon met Jimi (and was invited to kick Leonard Chess’s butt!)

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Buddy Guy performing in London, 1965
“Somebody called and told him I sounded pretty good, and he decided to come by and see for mimself”: When Buddy Guy met Muddy Waters

By Gary Graff Published

Arriving in Chicago from Baton Rouge in 1957, Buddy was a starving musician when he was “fed by the Mud”

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“I Got to Chicago on September the 25th, 1957. And I’m Still Here”: How Buddy Guy Went From Diddley Bow “Country Boy” to Chicago Blues Legend

By Gary Graff Published

“I said to myself, I want to do something the rest of the kids can’t do. And I thought, I want to play the guitar,” says the blues icon

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