Delta blues music has traveled far and these standards by Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly forever changed rock ...

On April 9, the Two Tours Collide tour stopped at the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne, Florida, ...

B.B. King reflected on his life in guitar many times across the decades. Here, he paints a nuanced, surprisingly humble ...

Conventional wisdom dictates that the pointy end of a pick is what you use to pluck the strings. The broader top is where you ...

Nothing says “I’m hurtin'” like the wail of a mournful guitar. It’s a sound that melts the heart and pierces the soul. While the blues saw a resurgence in the ’80s and ’90s, it’s fallen off the ...

Three veteran guitarists will bring their combined expertise in American roots music to Ann Arbor's The Ark on May 16.

Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy has influenced some of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, including Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Gary Clark Jr. But the factors that led to his inspiration may not ...

The band drew great inspiration from Thin Lizzy’s sonic template, but they made a concerted effort to avoid being labeled as ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — On a Friday night at the legendary ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Matt "Guitar" Murphy, who died Friday, was best known as Aretha Franklin's soul food chef husband and band guitarist in 1980's 'The Blues Brothers.' By Mitchell Peters, Billboard Matt “Guitar” Murphy, ...