ACOUSTIC WEEK: Blues is a wholly American music form, and as the steel- string flat-top acoustic guitar was a product of European immigrants into the United States, the two were destined to be ...
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Maybe somewhere in Memphis there’s a small, smoky room where blues masters soar, sting and scald, unimpeded by the demands of time or audience. Maybe it was on fire on Friday and Saturday night with ...
Keith Richards made a surprise appearance with Eric Clapton at the Crossroads Guitar Festival last night. The Rolling Stones guitarist took the stage without any formal introduction at the start of ...
Stars Go Down to the Crossroads: We weren’t at the Crypto.com Arena on Saturday for the first night of Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, but by all accounts it was a goodie. The likes of ...
Veteran blues musician Tinsley Ellis takes on new territory and strips down, delving into the acoustic blues traditions of ...
There’s something deeply compelling about the look, the feel and the sound of an acoustic guitar. It might come from hearing notes and chords ring out as its strings are played; it might emerge from ...
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — Close-ups of strings, fretboards and guitarists’ callused fingers filled the video screens on Saturday at Toyota Park here, a stadium just outside Chicago, where Eric Clapton’s ...
Today we mark the birthdate of Robert Johnson - Father of the Delta Blues. His recordings of "Cross Road Blues," "Love in Vain," "Sweet Home Chicago" and others became blues blueprints influencing ...