A look into the greatest riffs in folk music, covering everyone from Neil Young and Joni Mitchell to Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson.

Jimmy Holmes is the last in a line of music legends as he seeks to keep a singular American art form thriving Jim Beaugez ... the comfortingly predictable 12-bar blues most people are familiar ...

“Hand to heart, my favorite players were always the ones that had such an identifiable style and wrote songs in that very 12-bar blues framework,” Knowles told Cleveland.com and The Plain ...

Nearly a decade later, Bill Haley & His Comets employed the same melody over a 12-bar blues to create “Rock Around the Clock,” the first mainstream rock song.

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In blues ‘dominant’ 7 chords (A7 or D7 for example) are more common than basic major, minor and sus chords. The A7, D7 and E9 shapes shown here are all you need for a 12-bar blues improv in the key of ...

In the seventh track, “The Buddha On The Lawn” they bring back a late ‘70s-’80s sound, incorporating elements of blues through a baby grand backing, prominent alongside steady rhythm guitars and ...