​Introducing the Blues King Studio, a fresh face in Epiphone’s acoustic lineup, taking major cues from the L-00 lineage. This ...

Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated discomfort with success ...

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, musical heir to a long line of blues greats from the Mississippi Delta, has been compared to the likes of B.B. King. But while the legendary guitarist is one of Ingram's ...

Explore the life and illustrious career of the blues-rock guitar legend. From average Joe by day to guitar hero at night, Guitar Man tells the story of the rise of legendary bluesman Joe Bonamassa, ...

Music fans in San Diego and beyond have good reasons for both celebration and dismay following back-to-back announcements late last week. On Thursday, longtime Normal Heights resident Laura Chavez ...

His 1960s band, the Blues Project, won a following with a driving, experimental approach to traditional material that was anything but purist. By Jon Pareles Danny Kalb, a guitarist whose 1960s band ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

We explore where the blues came from and its influence on many modern genres of music. We explore where the blues came from and how it went on to influence many modern genres of music. From Delta ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

For rock guitarist Slash, his first exposure to the blues happened without him even knowing it. But when he was 6, the family moved to the United States, and Slash says his maternal grandmother ...

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Matt “Guitar” Murphy, best known as a member of the Blues Brothers band, has died at 88, his nephew confirmed in a Facebook statement. He’d semi-retired in the mid ‘00s after suffering a stroke. Born ...