Duke Robillard live with an Epiphjone jazzbox at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 1999. Born in Rhode Island, Duke Robillard is widely regarded as American blues guitar royalty. Duke was a ...

Chicago blues giant Muddy Waters’ first 'guitar' was a length of wire nailed to the side of his shack in Mississippi. He played slide on it with a rusty bolt. Of course, these days, apprentice blues ...

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

When you’re on the road to improving with your lead guitar skills, a great way to start getting new ideas and understanding just how scales work is to learn from the best of blues guitar. Take some ...

When you’ve reached the pinnacle of rock ’n’ roll superstardom while remaining one of the most iconic and recognizable guitarists in the world for more than 35 years, what do you do for a fun little ...

When Johnny Winter hit the scene back in the '60s, he looked and sounded like nothing else on the planet. A ferocious blues guitar player with a snarling voice to match, Winter, who died Wednesday in ...

Johnny Winter, the Texas blues guitarist who added his own unique current of electricity to songs like “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Johnny B. Goode” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” in the late Sixties and ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

Few who saw "The Blues Brothers" movie in 1980 and the musical comedy classic's countless airings on television since could hardly forget Matt "Guitar" Murphy's contribution. The famed blues guitarist ...