T-Bone Walker may have been the first true hero of modern electric blues, but he stood upon the shoulders of jazz and blues ...
The long strange trip that is the Grateful Dead and its primary offshoot, Dead & Company, has truly faded into grey with the ...
On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an exceptional year in... Viking's Choice 2025: The Guitar The guitar will never ...
On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an exceptional year in guitar music. From Gwenifer Raymond's beautiful and brash ...
Steve Cropper, the legendary guitarist with Booker T and the MGs, has died at the age of 84. The musician, who played on and co-wrote Otis Redding's Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay and Wilson Pickett's ...
Steve Cropper, the US guitarist whose work as an instrumentalist, producer and songwriter at Stax Records left an indelible impression on Memphis soul music, has died at the age of 84. His son Cameron ...
The songwriter, two-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer riffed on “Soul Man,” “Green Onions” and “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay.” By Roy Trakin Steve Cropper, a founding member of ...
Johnny Cash’s first full-length studio album, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!, will be reissued as a high-quality vinyl LP on February 20, 2026. The 12-track collection, which originally hit ...
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In 2018, the rock star was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame MOODY Blues legend John Lodge has tragically died aged 82. In a statement, the star’s heartbroken family confirmed he was ...
B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends, and the singular identity of his beloved hollow-body Gibson guitar ...
When he slipped off stage in the middle of “Hard Times” at the Rialto Theatre on Friday night, we had an inkling that blues guitar phenom Christone “Kingfish” Ingram was going to dramatically reappear ...