If you like soaring, soul bursting, euphoric blues, this article is for you. The list below is my own personal opinion of the top ten blues guitarists of all time. You’ll no doubt note the list is heavy with more modern players, which leaves the early masters little room. This is not to slight the ...
In the juke joints around Clarksdale, Mississippi, Robert Johnson was known as the kid who could barely play the guitar he often carried. Stories are told of musicians inviting Johnson to join them on stage, knowing that, before he got very far, the audience would be laughing. He disappeared for a while. When he returned, ...
Eric Clapton stepped into the spotlight for the first time with the Yardbirds. Clapton abandoned the potential for a commercially successful career with the Yardbirds because he felt they had strayed from their blues roots. The Yarbirds were set to follow the commercial path of their musical colleagues the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Clapton ...
Robert Johnson was born May 8, 1911 and died at the young age of 27 in 1938. At the time of his death, Johnson was a obscure traveling blues musician. His recordings were rediscovered in the 1960s and Johnson has emerged as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.. Robert Johnson:The Centennial ...
Eric Clapton is a true artist who puts heart and soul in any song he touches. As talented at playing guitar as he is at writing music, many of his songs are true to life, with a story to be told. The strong blues influencing his music makes it unique, with just a enough of ...
Movie Review – Crossroads (1986) The movie Crossroads, not to be confused with that Britney Spears pop flop released in 2002, is a movie about music first and foremost. The story starts in New York City at Julliard but moves to Mississippi for some blues laden guitar and intertwines with a boy who is seeking ...
I wrote a book about women blues singers called T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do, and I love women blues singers best. But for the purposes of this article, I am choosing 5 women and 5 men who I feel have had the most influence on the popularity of the blues. 1. B.B. King In ...