In this exclusive video lesson, the bluesman walks us through an essential skill for the blues guitar player, the slow blues… And he’s going to demonstrate how using an amp it took him 15 years to tra ...

Naturally, many blues songs feature lyrics about being down in the dumps, love lost, and heartbreak. But so much of the genre is also very upbeat, comedic, and loaded with innuendo. Let’s take a ...

The songs that influenced The Rolling Stones most have all come from the blues tradition – as the ... “I used a slide on that – on an old 1954 Fender Telecaster – and that was the ...

MOVIE “Emilia Pérez,” French director Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical about a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía ...

Kris Kristofferson wrote the song “Be and Bobby McGee” but he was ... and barely holds onto the original melodic elements. It ...

Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2024 wrap-up coverage here. Chris Taylor is, first and foremost, a designer of worlds. Starchris ...

We did not like country music. We listened to rock & roll – be it hard, heavy, prog, or pop. We dabbled in soul and funk.

The Rolling Stones are no strangers to making people uncomfortable, and they've written some songs that are so heinous, it's ...

Before he arrived at the Old Joliet Prison south ... listening to songs he was interested in doing. It wasn’t all straight up blues, it was a mash up of R&B and blues.” To up their own game ...

In the timeless flight of the Moody Blues ... to recount the slow, almost faltering progress of this epic ballad when it was first released. Justin Hayward’s song, and its parent album, ...

On November 28, 1971, Rory Gallagher released his iconic second solo album, Deuce. To mark the occasion, we're revisiting an ...