With Joe Bonamassa having gathered the cream of the scene for the B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 tribute album – and written the intro to this feature – we take an alphabetised look back at the blues legend’s classic tracks, hotel bombings, car crashes, conspiracy theories, towering infernos and more…

Richard Barrett is on a mission to make you a better blues player – with full audio examples and backing tracks

BY THE MID-EIGHTIES, Jimmie Vaughan had been hammering away with the Fabulous Thunderbirds for four under-the-radar albums, garnering a cult following. This, along with the fact that Robert Cray and A

He was drawn into rock by the greats, but rock’s not the only string on his guitar.

ALTHOUGH HE WAS 84 and had been ill for several years, the passing of soul-funk-R&B legend and general jack-of-all-trades Steve Cropper still stings — a lot. Perhaps it’s because Cropper, despite his

Fondly remembered this month...