Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins, who revolutionized the blues scene, was born on March 15, 1912, in Centerville, Texas.

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Reverend Gary Davis was simply one of the finest finger-pickers ever to play a guitar, a leading practitioner of the ragtime-imbued Piedmont school of blues. A vital source of early ragtime and ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Sometimes, the blues muse does her bidding here, both in terms of the homegrown blues scene and shows ushered through our local venues through various parties. And the crowds show up, in numbers and ...

Tom Winslow, a Capital Region folk and country-blues musician who wrote a fundraising anthem for the sloop Clearwater and regularly performed at Caffe Lena, died Oct. 23 of complications from a stroke ...

Mattheus Canteri’s 6 favourite licks are not only impressive but a lot of fun to learn too!

These famous guitar riffs built up blues rock as a genre during its formative years, and they still inspire guitarists today.