T-bone walker

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

ONE OF MY biggest musical influences is the king of blues power, Albert King. There are so many things that define his unique approach to playing, and I think about these things every time I pick up m

OVER THE LAST two columns, I’ve demonstrated a handful of what I consider to be essential “blues approved” licks that work well both as embellishments to rhythm parts or as phrases within a solo. Our

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

ERIC JOHNSON IS without doubt one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and, as I’ve stated, he has been a huge influence for me from the very first moment I heard him, way back in 1986. One of the

THE MODERN BLUES scene is full of guitar players who represent the harder, more rocking side of the genre. But Louisiana-bred guitarist and frontman D.K. Harrell comes from a different school of blues