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...
Tag - blues music
Last week The Daily Music Break posted about Guy Davis. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes chatting with him. Please check out our...
Some folks retain their status as great musicians and, at the same time, transcend to another level. That status — call it a national treasure —...
Here is Cub Koda, writing at AllMusic, on Jimmy Reed: There’s simply no sound in the blues as easily digestible, accessible, instantly recognizable, and...
This is funny, in a good way. First, listen to Buddy Guy reflect on the question of whether white people can play the blues. (NSFW for bad — but totally...
Those are two great nicknames, and there probably were more. Champion Jack Dupree led an interesting life, it seems. From the AllMusic bio: Dupree was...
Little Walter — Marion Walter Jacobs — is considered by those who know about such things to be the greatest blues harmonica player who ever lived...
From his body language while playing to his unique, free flowing improvisations, there is nobody like Keith Jarrett. This is from AllMusic: Pianist, composer...
I am not a guitar player, but to me Furry Lewis’ technique seems unique. “Kassie Jones” is a song about a conductor, but doesn’t sound...
Blues Traveler was featured in a cute scene in Blues Brothers. Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd, of course) performed Rock Me Baby with the band later. He seems to be...
