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Goosebumps alert: Watch Thomas Gabriel conjure up the ghost of his grandfather Johnny Cash with an eerily familiar cover of Folsom Prison Blues
By Fraser Lewry published
Thomas Gabriel's cover of the classic Folsom Prison Blues was filmed at Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, TN

Joe Bonamassa fires on all cylinders on the unfailingly upbeat sequel to 2003's Blues Deluxe
By Henry Yates published
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of his best-selling independent release Blues Deluxe, Joe Bonamassa repeats the trick

Heroin, groupies and a court order: the story of the controversial documentary the Rolling Stones didn’t want the world to see
By Joe Daly published
Cocksucker Blues is one of rock’n’roll’s most notorious documentaries – that’s why the Rolling Stones blocked the director from releasing it

Former blues wonderboy Oli Brown didn't touch his guitar for a year: now he's back, and things are very different
By Henry Yates published
British guitarist Oli Brown on jumping genres, rejecting his instrument, battling his demons and returning to music

Blues legend Junior Wells has just released an official newly recorded single despite dying in 1998
By Fraser Lewry published
In what is surely a sign of things to come, artificial intelligence has been used in the creation of Junior Wells' new Halloween-themed single It’s Your Voodoo Working

"There was a lot of pot-smoking going on at the listen-backs": Gráinne Duffy on the Californian vibes of new album Dirt Woman Blues
By Henry Yates published
Singer and guitarist Gráinne Duffy on AI songwriting, being compared to a blues-rock legend, and why Walter Trout should try giving birth

“I used to look at myself all dolled up like some guy in Def Leppard, and think, ‘Who do you think you are?’”: how Gary Moore ditched hard rock and saved his career with Still Got The Blues
By Mick Wall published
The epic story of Gary Moore’s journey from 80s hard rock hero to the man who ushered in the 90s blues revival

"It's the audience that brings something magical to that song": the story of Nights In White Satin by the Moody Blues
By Rob Hughes published
Dumped by a girlfriend, Justin Hayward remembered a gift she had given him and started writing a song that became a multimillion-selling, era-defining classic – and earned him not a penny

“We played Madison Square Garden twice in one day… we saw our name in 50ft-high letters and said, ‘Perhaps we’ve made it!’ We bought a load of tickets off a scalper and gave them away”: When the Moody Blues started taking themselves seriously
By Malcolm Dome published
Justin Hayward and co weren’t sure how long they’d last after inheriting the music of Denny Laine - but they needn’t have worried
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