T-Bone Walker’s influence can be heard in the playing of countless great blues players, sometimes filtered down through the work of luminaries such as B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan. These others ...

Spice up your blues playing with this slick cross-rhythm lick using a 3-against-4 pattern. In this short tutorial, I show you how to break the rhythmic mold and add a layer of sophistication to your ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: David Redfern/Redferns In my last column, I demonstrated a Jimmy Reed-inspired eight-bar ...

In this video, I break down a fast 16th-note blues lick I transcribed from the legendary Dizzy Gillespie. This one lick opened the door to faster improvisation, and I’ll show you how I internalized it ...

SPRINGFIELD — It used to be so much easier to learn how to play blues guitar. All you needed to do was sign your soul over to the devil. No lessons needed. Go on back home, enjoy life, play some ...

That moldy-peaches cliché “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” has rarely applied to anyone as much as Buddy Guy. As his former protégé Joe Bonamassa says in The Torch, a new doc about Guy, the now ...

Hammett noted that he was "the heavy-metal guy. ... I show up and the guys who really didn’t know me were a little hesitant, and so you know what I started doing? I started playing a bunch of blues ...