To get you started we’re looking at some chords in the guitar-friendly key of A. You’ve probably heard of a I-IV-V (one-four-five) progression - it’s a common blues chord sequence and its name tells ...

Caught the blues guitar bug bad but not sure what to listen to next? We’ve got you covered with 12 of the best albums from some of the greatest players to pick up ...

Joe Bonamassa has shared his top tip for players looking to supercharge their blues guitar solos, and it has nothing to do with studying the greats. In his latest Guitar World interview, he was asked ...

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, musical heir to a long line of blues greats from the Mississippi Delta, has been compared to the likes of B.B. King. But while the legendary guitarist is one of Ingram's ...

When Johnny Winter hit the scene back in the '60s, he looked and sounded like nothing else on the planet. A ferocious blues guitar player with a snarling voice to match, Winter, who died Wednesday in ...

Corky Siegel remembers Jim Schwall, vividly and forever. “It is all clear as day,” Siegel said. “Jim could do pretty much anything he wanted to do. He was a master of the guitar, an artist, an ...

B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends, and the singular identity of his beloved hollow-body Gibson guitar ...

Johnny Winter, the Texas blues guitarist who added his own unique current of electricity to songs like “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Johnny B. Goode” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” in the late Sixties and ...