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

Explore the life and illustrious career of the blues-rock guitar legend. From average Joe by day to guitar hero at night, Guitar Man tells the story of the rise of legendary bluesman Joe Bonamassa, ...

We explore where the blues came from and its influence on many modern genres of music. We explore where the blues came from and how it went on to influence many modern genres of music. From Delta ...

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, musical heir to a long line of blues greats from the Mississippi Delta, has been compared to the likes of B.B. King. But while the legendary guitarist is one of Ingram's ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

Guild, which celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2023, was founded by Alfred Dronge, who teamed up with former Epiphone ...

Music fans in San Diego and beyond have good reasons for both celebration and dismay following back-to-back announcements late last week. On Thursday, longtime Normal Heights resident Laura Chavez ...

Carl “Buffalo” Nichols has the deep, methodical voice of a storyteller. He speaks in low, even tones that seem unhurried, even as his sentences amble forward invitingly—a trait reflected in the steady ...

His 1960s band, the Blues Project, won a following with a driving, experimental approach to traditional material that was anything but purist. By Jon Pareles Danny Kalb, a guitarist whose 1960s band ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

Carl “Buffalo” Nichols knows the question is coming, and he can’t help but smile. “Should I be careful or should I be honest?” he says, Zooming in from a hotel room before a show in Englewood, ...

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