Charlie Wilkins uncovers how early British blues shaped today’s scene, and hears from some of the guitarists carrying the torch forward

There was once a time when native New Yorkers like Aaron Copland and Ferde Grofé composed odes to the American West; when Europeans like Darius Milhaud and Frederick Delius extolled the deep South; an

DARLING BLUE IS the Marcus King Band’s first album since 2018’s Carolina Confessions. This might sound weird considering we’re talking about a crew that has been a dedicated band of road warriors sinc

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

IF YOU’VE SEEN recent footage of Eric Steckel in action, you’ll probably have noticed that his take on the blues is an undeniably aggressive one. It’s a new thing for him, he tells GW, having started

A CHIEF CONSIDERATION when playing with a slide is the tuning. Many of our favorite slide players — Elmore James, Duane Allman, Johnny Winter, Derek Trucks — play slide almost exclusively in an open t