T-Bone Walker may have been the first true hero of modern electric blues, but he stood upon the shoulders of jazz and blues ...

Jump blues was a style of music that developed in the 1940s and was an offshoot of the big bands of the day. It was essentially an uptempo swing combining jazz, boogie and blues that was popular in ...

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In American music, slide guitar (also known as bottleneck guitar) is a technique employed primarily by blues guitarists. It involves the use of a smooth cylinder that can fit over a player's finger, ...

Joe Hill Louis, B.B. King and Rufus Thomas appear on a new multi-disc compilation of electric blues, Plug It In! Turn It Up! Blues is so much a part of the fabric of American music and American ...

On July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at the Newport Folk Festival and plugged in his electric guitar for what many consider to be the first time. The folk artist turned in his flannel shirt for ...

Nothing says “I’m hurtin'” like the wail of a mournful guitar. It’s a sound that melts the heart and pierces the soul. While the blues saw a resurgence in the ’80s and ’90s, it’s fallen off the ...

Blues is so much a part of the fabric of American music and American culture — not only as a defined musical form, but also as a springboard for all kinds of creativity — that it seems crazy to try to ...