Welcome to a blues guitar extravaganza. The aim of this feature is to study and apply some of the technical and musical concepts employed by 30 top blues guitar icons from the 1950s right up to the ...

Enter to tickets for Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio with special guest Cedric Burnside on Thursday, October 30 at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley.

Growing up in New York, Marc Stone was struck by the sound of the slide guitar at a young age. His uncle gave him a Muddy Waters album. His mother and stepfather were big fans of the Allman Brothers' ...

Today, we can listen to over one hundred years of blues. Sylvester Weaver’s unaccompanied instrumental Guitar Blues (1923) may be the earliest example of recorded blues guitar, with Son House, Charlie ...

In American music, slide guitar (also known as bottleneck guitar) is a technique employed primarily by blues guitarists. It involves the use of a smooth cylinder that can fit over a player's finger, ...

The first slide guitar recording (and first instrumental blues recording) was made by Sylvester Weaver for Okeh Records (No. 8109) in 1923, the A-side being "Guitar Blues" and the B- side "Guitar Rag.

Guitarist Bob Margolin said his life changed when he first heard Muddy Waters. He had been exposed to the blues on a college radio station. And when Muddy Waters came on, he wanted to learn how to do ...

Longtime Wisconsin blues legend Howard “Guitar” Luedtke and his Blue Max band will be the featured performers Friday at The Dive on Ward Avenue that will also double as a CD release party for ...

Calling all Front Range blues fans! Herman’s Hideaway will be a “Blues Circus” on Saturday, March 19, as a supergroup of nine Colorado musicians – including members of the Subdudes – co-headlines a ...