Blues Features

Still a cult figure outside of the guitar world, Danny Gatton was the ‘player’s player’, a genius who mastered every genre he touched before tragically taking his own life

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

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This year, British blues icon John Mayall celebrates his 85th birthday with a UK tour. Here are the eight songs that got him started

Bones UK guitarist Carmen Vandenberg picks 10 songs by Jimi Hendrix: "He's truly timeless and listening to his work makes me speechless"

The Allmans. Bobby Bland. Elmore James. Everybody’s favourite husband-and-wife team flip through their record collection and dig out the platters that matter...

Janis Joplin’s transition from band member to solo diva (including her only solo album released in her lifetime) was fraught with power plays, ego trips and excessive drug use

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Visionary, guitar wizard and inspiration, Les Paul invented the electric guitar and drew the blueprint for contemporary music as we know it

Chess Records songwriter Willie Dixon was the man behind some of the most beloved and influential songs in blues history, inspiring a whole generation of musicians.

Roy Buchanan inspired Jeff Beck, Gary Moore and Joe Bonamassa, but suffered a life of addiction and died a bluesman’s death

Facebook users say they're being banned for uploading the cover of Led Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy. What's going on?

From 1967 to 1974, Fleetwood Mac teetered on the line between triumph and oblivion. Co-founder Mick Fleetwood recalls the band’s early years…

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Gris-gris or gumbo? Voodoo priest or piano-tickling new orleans R&B guru? Where to start with the music of Dr John…

One is a former teenage prodigy, the other is in Jane’s addiction. We sit down with guitarists Eric Gales and Dave Navarro, “two junkies of the worst kind”