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In this tutorial, we break down the legendary walking boogie bass line from Oscar Peterson’s Boogie Blues Etudes, live in ...
Knowing his Mississippi roots, Chess essentially wanted Waters to find for him his own Robert Johnson. Waters had other ideas ...
Bonnie Raitt became Guitar Player's first female cover star. "I hate to be called a blues singer or a folkie," she said.
And yet Coogler’s wildest, most ambitious, most creative idea — one fascinating enough to be the plot of a movie all on its own — gets one breathtaking, inventive sequence, and then gets dropped from ...
Memphis music producer Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell recruited area musicians to contribute what he calls “authentic” sounds to the ...
Göransson found a 1932 Dobro Cyclops, which became the hero slide guitar for the surreal musical tribute to the blues, which ...
Growing up in a musical household, Ballantine was exposed early on to the pop greats, but also the sounds of jazz, blues, pop and rock. “My parents were born in the 50s,” Ballantine explains. A ...
Its origins are deeply rooted in blues and ragtime music, a popular genre in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and also share similar sensibilities to European and African music. Like most genres ...
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Kurt Cobain of Nirvana during the taping of MTV Unplugged. CREDIT: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images The guitar Kurt Cobain used in Nirvana‘s iconic ‘MTV Unplugged’ performance is set to feature ...