In this edition of Bought & Sold, Guitarist has the pleasure of Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s company, and there are few bigger electric guitar aficionados in the world. We often associate him with the Strat ...
Willie Lee “Guitar” Johnson, 71, a Chicago blues musician, played guitar with Howlin’ Wolf from the late 1940s until their famous last gig together at Theresa’s in 1959. His playing helped transform ...
Hubert Sumlin, a blues guitarist whose soulful licks and crackling solos were featured on scores of hits for singer Howlin’ Wolf during the 1950s and 1960s and who influenced later work by Eric ...
Growing up in New York, Marc Stone was struck by the sound of the slide guitar at a young age. His uncle gave him a Muddy Waters album. His mother and stepfather were big fans of the Allman Brothers' ...
Nobody did the blues quite like Howlin’ Wolf. He was an incredible electric Chicago blues artist, with a powerful voice, excellent harmonica skills, and legendary prowess with the electric guitar. He ...
Artists Derek Trucks is one of the greatest slide players of all time – here’s how he decides when to use it Artists Derek Trucks on the unlikely triumph of Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell’s ...
The best blues artists make you feel their pain. Howlin' Wolf took it further: He made you feel his fear. What is the blues, really, when everything is stripped away? What's the core emotion that sits ...
***** Howlin’ Wolf, The Chess Box (MCA): Blues fans will find this box set as essential as the Robert Johnson collection. It’s also indispensable to anyone who really cares about the Rolling Stones, ...
W hen Buddy Guy is in town, he leaves his house in Orland Park, Illinois, around 7:30 p.m. and makes the 26-mile drive up I-55 to downtown Chicago, listening to B.B. King’s Bluesville station on ...
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