Watch Black Stone Cherry pay tribute to Otis Rush in All Your Love video
Black Stone Cherry’s cover of the Otis Rush track will feature on the band’s new EP Back To Blues Volume 2
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Watch Black Stone Cherry pay tribute to Otis Rush in All Your Love video
Black Stone Cherry’s cover of the Otis Rush track will feature on the band’s new EP Back To Blues Volume 2
Here are the 13 biggest news stories of the week
It’s been another busy week in the world of rock, metal and prog – here are the stories that hit the headlines
Listen to Black Stone Cherry’s swaggering take on Son House’s Death Letter Blues
The Kentucky favourites share their cover of Son House’s 1965 track Death Letter Blues - taken from Back To Blues Volume 2
New study indicates listening to music can boost your mental wellbeing
New study ahead of World Mental Health Day highlights link between listening to albums and positive mental wellbeing
Ginger Baker: the world of music pays tribute
Paul McCartney, Dave Davies, Flea, Hawkwind, Mike Portnoy and more play tribute to the late Cream drummer Ginger Baker
Cream drummer Ginger Baker dead at 80
UPDATE Statement confirms that Ginger Baker died peacefully earlier this morning after being admitted to hospital late last month
Jimi Hendrix returns to the Royal Albert Hall
The movie Jimi Hendrix Experience: The Royal Albert Hall will screen at the iconic London venue this month
Complete Jimi Hendrix Band Of Gypsys shows get Songs For Groovy Children release
The set features all four shows from the Band Of Gypsys run at New York's legendary Fillmore East venue
Robert Plant to release Digging Deep with Robert Plant singles box set
The eight-disc set is launched to coincide with the second series of the Digging Deep with Robert Plant podcast
Ginger Baker "holding his own" in hospital
The family of Ginger Baker issue statement to thank fans and well-wishers after the Cream founder was taken ill
Watch Robert Plant tell AC/DC's Brian Johnson about the rise of Led Zeppelin
Brian Johnson: A Life on the Road features the AC/DC singer talking Led Zeppelin with Robert Plant
Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood to pay tribute to Chuck Berry with new live release
Ronnie Wood will release the album Mad Lad featuring a selection of Chuck Berry classics later this year
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The 15 best ZZ Top songs, according to 15 of the world's greatest guitarists
To celebrate that little ol’ band from Texas ZZ Top’s 50 years in rock’n’roll, we asked some top guitarists to pick their favourite ZZ songs
Ginger Baker interview: an afternoon with the world’s most irascible drummer
Mick Jagger is “a musical moron”. Hawkwind’s music “was fucking appalling”. And rock stars? “Fucking idiots, most of them.” How to win friends with the late, great Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker's half-dozen: six of the best from a legend
Six songs that broke the mould from the extraordinary career of Ginger Baker
The devastating, tragic story of The Allman Brothers Band
Just as everything seemed to be going right for The Allman Brothers, drugs, deaths and disintegration shot their dream into oblivion
Archive interview: AC/DC's Angus Young and Malcolm Young
AC/DC became one of the biggest-selling bands of all time by never trying to fix what wasn’t broke in the first place. In 2003, we asked Malcolm and Angus Young how they did it
The 5 best new blues albums you need to hear right now
New releases from Henry’s Funeral Shoe, Kris Barras Band, P.P. Arnold, Sunjay and Katie Brooks
Collapsing stages, Hell’s Angels, and a band called Led Zeppelin
1969’s Bath festival was the first of its kind. In 1970 it all went a bit wrong. Promoters Freddy and Wendy Bannister tell the tale.
Ginger Baker meets Herman Rarebell: pain, playing and marijuana
One of them is a drumming great and a true legend, the other learned from him and became a great too. We put Cream legend Ginger Baker and former Scorpions man Herman Rarebell together
The Stray Cats: nine lives and still running wild
It’s four decades since the Stray Cats rebooted rockabilly with Runaway Boys. Now, Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom talk old times and fresh beginnings
Whitesnake's Lovehunter: the album that inflamed the music press
To this day, Whitesnake are still often tagged as an 80s band, but it all began with bluesy hard rock in the 70s. Then along came 1979’s game-changer, Lovehunter
The 10 best Jimi Hendrix songs, by Bones UK guitarist Carmen Vandenberg
Bones UK guitarist Carmen Vandenberg picks 10 songs by Jimi Hendrix: "He's truly timeless and listening to his work makes me speechless"
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Creedence's Woodstock set: 50 years on, still bristling with energy
After half a century on the cutting room floor, Creedence Clearwater Revival's Woodstock set is officially out at last
The Rolling Stones: Honk album review
Three-CD set combines post-’71 studio cuts, live recordings and recent tour guest slots from The Rolling Stones
The Quireboys: Amazing Disgrace album review
Thirty-five years down the road and The Quireboys still sound fresh on 12th album Amazing Disgrace
Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap (30th Anniversary) album review
Rolling Stone Keith Richards' 1988 solo debut gets major expansion job – in real Fender wood!
Mountain: Nantucket Sleighride - Album Of The Week Club review
UK rockers of a certain age were introduced to Nantucket Sleighride by political broadcasting on the TV, but there was also an album attached to the song
Francis Rossi & Hannah Rickard: We Talk Too Much album review
After Rick Parfitt, what next for the Status Quo man?
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: The Best Of Everything album review
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' career-spanning double CD compilation, also available on quadruple vinyl
Tedeschi Trucks Band: Signs album review
Susan Tedeschi. Derek Trucks. And their Band. Album number four is Signs
Free: Tons Of Sobs - Album Of The Week Club review
A debut album from the youthful Free, a band with a couldn’t-care-less attitude honed on the rough-and-ready UK circuit of blues clubs and ballrooms
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Framed - Album Of The Week Club review
SAHB crept up on an unsuspecting nation, grabbed it by the balls and won hearts and minds in unison
Rival Sons: Feral Roots album review
Long Beach rockers’ Rival Sons' sixth album twists and turns and ultimately triumphs
