The guitar hero superman started with Jimi Hendrix and continues today. There is a long list of great ones: Rory Gallagher, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Leslie West...
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The James Gang was in the second tier of rock acts from the perspectives of popularity and record sales. However, the James Gang had their moments, their fans...
It seems like a good time to do something a little new. Please vote on your favorite three electric blues guitarists. If enough people vote, I’ll take...
I didn’t liked Elton John when I was young. Youth defend their cultural choices aggressively, and I was into The Grateful Dead, Hot Tuna and that...
To be perfectly honest, the stereotypical guitar hero — the flamboyant virtuoso with superhuman skills — is a bit long in the tooth. They were a...
This profile of the great guitarist Freddie King seems to have been written by a family member: Freddie was born in Gilmer Texas on September 3 1934 with the...
This weekend was the fourth time that Sonny Landreth played at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Festival. His name can get lost amid the megastars that Clapton...
I didn’t see the whole thing, but I felt that one of one of the best musical moments last night was Eric Clapton’s acoustic version of Nobody Knows...
Luther Allison was a tremendous blues guitarist who passed away in 1997. While he didn’t get the publicity of some of his contemporaries, he appeared...
Dire Straits wasn’t quite The Beatles, The Who or The Rolling Stones, but it no doubt was one of the super bands of the 1980s and 1990s. Lead guitarist...