An American flag hanging above a bedroom in Transylvania isn’t the usual beginning of a Nashville blues-rock story. But for ...

The fusion subgenre known as blues rock came together in the early 1960s in the US and UK. It didn’t really kick off in a massive way until the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which some of the ...

Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated ...

The discovery of Freddie King was the Eureka! moment in the origin story of Slowhand's ascent as the British blues scene's ...

The Baby Boomer generation came of age in the middle of the 1960s during a cultural revolution that included a ...

Carvin Jones, the beloved rock and blues guitarist known as the “King of Strings,” has died after a battle with cancer. He was 60. His family said in a statement that Jones died on Sept. 20. “Carvin ...

These guitar players completely revolutionized their instrument. Without these instrumentalists, the guitar would never have ...

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“The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It’s better keeping the roots alive because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as ...

The electric guitar symbolises rebellion, freedom, excess and youth. But with the classic rock period well behind us, is it in danger of becoming a faded relic? The Washington Post recently reported ...