Park your electric guitar in Drop D. Throw your pick in the trash. It's time for some muscular fingerstyle with the purveyor ...

Ana Popovic certainly wants the world to appreciate her hot guitar skills and soulful blues-rock chops. But she wants to make people dance as well — part of the mission behind her upcoming 10th studio ...

B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends, and the singular identity of his beloved hollow-body Gibson guitar ...

When he slipped off stage in the middle of “Hard Times” at the Rialto Theatre on Friday night, we had an inkling that blues guitar phenom Christone “Kingfish” Ingram was going to dramatically reappear ...

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 ...

A decade before Ottawa had Bluesfest, we had a blues scene fertile enough to propel a teenage Sue Foley into a career that has not only lasted more than 30 years, but also earned the Ottawa-born ...

Guy was one of the first guitarists to use electronic feedback and distortion. Now, at age 88, he has a cameo in Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror film Sinners. Originally broadcast in 1993. This is ...

Before the 1950s, guitars supported the band. By the end of the decade, they led it. This breakdown covers the rise of electric guitar heroes like Scotty Moore, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, and Chuck Berry ...

Ryan Coogler‘s “Sinners” is much more than a bloody showdown featuring vampires. The supernatural thriller is anchored in music, specifically the blues. In the film, in theaters now, Michael B. Jordan ...

People don't think about the blues scale in the right way, and it's ruining their jazz solos. Improvisation can't simply be thought of in terms of "a scale" and have imagination, soul and meaning.

The singer/songwriter is one of the 2024 Kennedy Center honorees. In 1996, Raitt spoke to Fresh Air about about the musicians that inspired her, including Mississippi Fred McDowell. This is FRESH AIR.