In this edition of Bought & Sold, Guitarist has the pleasure of Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s company, and there are few bigger electric guitar aficionados in the world. We often associate him with the Strat ...

Best of 2024: As cross-cultural high points go in post-war austerity Britain, the American Folk Blues Festival tours that started in 1962 took some beating. Seemingly out of nowhere, iconic blues ...

Matt (Guitar) Murphy, a masterful bluesman who played with Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James, Chuck Berry and Memphis Slim but was best known as a member of the Blues Brothers band, died Friday in Miami. He ...

Nobody did the blues quite like Howlin’ Wolf. He was an incredible electric Chicago blues artist, with a powerful voice, excellent harmonica skills, and legendary prowess with the electric guitar. He ...

“The Red Rooster” is track nine on disc one. Listen to it first, because it’s the key to this re-issue. On it, Howlin’ Wolf schools Eric Clapton on how to play the blues. As in, “No man, do it this ...

Grand Marshall Jennifer Jones leads the jazz funeral second-line for Snooks Eaglin on Friday, Feb. 27. In a tan suit and his trademark sunglasses, the late Snooks Eaglin lay in a casket near the ...

With 12 bands and nine certified guitar heroes on the 14th Fargo Blues Fest lineup, there should be no shortage of electrifying solos. But some solo artists usually known as sidemen to more popular ...

Today, as the dawn of the two-decade mark of Deadeye Dick’s debut single approaches, the boys in the band have decided to revive the long since dormant damsel at a reunion show at the Howlin’ Wolf on ...

Forget Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, forget Jerry Garcia and Jimmy Page. Michael Bloomfield was the best blues-rock guitarist of his generation by far.