Blues artist Joanne Shaw Taylor was born to be a rock star. Raised in the Black Country of England—think John Bonham, Robert Plant, Beverley Knight—Taylor started playing guitar when she was just ...

At 72, touring isn’t getting any easier for blues guitarist Coco Montoya, but it’s still rewarding. “It’s definitely not gonna make me a millionaire,” he said Tuesday in a phone call from Charlotte, N ...

A quintessential hit of the mid-1970s kind of happened by accident. Elvin Bishop, a gutsy and eloquent guitarist formerly with ‘60s standouts Paul Butterfield Blues Band, was at Miami’s Criteria ...

Slash's latest album, Orgy of the Damned, is a bonafide blues cover album that continues to cement the legacy of the Guns N' Roses guitarist. In homage to the genre and its future, Slash recently gave ...

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

Texas guitarist/singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Wonderland, 52, has accumulated quite an impressive resume of recording projects, collaborations ...

Bluesman Carl “Buffalo” Nichols doesn’t see himself as a guitar-strumming savior, even if he’s been described as such since gaining national notoriety with a refreshing interpretation of old-school ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

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