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Nat Myers' 'Yellow Peril' takes a bluesy, 'oxymoronic,' anachronistic road to civil rights
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOn the surface, Korean-American bluesman Nat Myers seems as out of place as fresh-made, cracklin'...
He Escaped From a Chain Gang, Charmed His Way out of Prison, and Was Immortalized in Music History:...
Guitar Player via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLead Belly playin 12-string acoustic guitar Lead Belly was born Huddie Ledbetter in 1885 in...
"You Don’t Want to Play Like B.B. King or Somebody Else. You Want to Be You": Some Collected Words...
Guitar Player via Yahoo News· 9 months agoB.B. King performing in 1969. Over the years, Guitar Player enjoyed a close relationship with B.B....
“In the Canon of the Blues, His Songs Are Really Top of the Heap”: Walter Trout Explains Why Robert...
Guitar Player via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRobert Johnson and Gibson L-1 Robert Johnson’s masterful guitar technique is the stuff of legend,...
Why did the Mavericks collaborate with a musician on their new City Edition uniforms?
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe Dallas Mavericks unveiled their 2023 City Edition jerseys, called the Trinity River Blues...
"He really lived it": Lightnin' Hopkins picked cotton and worked on a chain gang before becoming the...
Guitar Player via Yahoo News· 5 months ago"Lightnin' did everything the way you'd think a real blues player would do…" The story of Lightnin'...
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on Their 2024 Tour, ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ Retirement, and Much More
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPlant and Krauss are playing more U.S. dates this year — in their only interview, they tell us us...
"There were guitar players weeping. They had to mop the floor up": How Jimi Hendrix invented...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWhen Jimi Hendrix arrived in London he blew the minds of the British rock elite. Soon they would...
Custom Flying Vs, strange open tunings and massive bends: how Albert King created his own strain of...
Guitar World via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA left-hander, King flipped a right-handed guitar upside down, put it in an unorthodox tuning, and...
Celebrate a big Bix weekend in QC
WHBF Davenport via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThis weekend will be a very special one for fans of Bix Beiderbecke, jazz and music history. Sunday, March 10 is the 121st anniversary of Bix’s birth in...