Blues you can use, part 4

ON MY LATEST album, One Guitar Woman, I pay tribute to many of the female pioneers of the guitar, all of whom are among the biggest influences on my approach to playing the instrument. On the album, I

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

This month, Richard Barrett grabs his acoustic and shows you another way to expand your chord vocabulary

LAST MONTH, WE delved into the all-important topic of developing solid pick-hand timing when strumming. To me, that’s where the groove is: the pick hand is the timekeeper, and I’ve spent a lot of time

LAST YEAR, IN the middle of a solo on stage, Ally Venable had a revelation. “I was playing so many shows that it started to become kind of a monotonous blur,” she says. “I noticed I was playing to my

THIS MONTH, I’D like to go over the namesake song of my column, “Hard Wired,” which appears on my self-titled 2023 album. I wrote this song with my good friend Tyler Bryant, and it grew out of a jam s