If you don’t know the blues, then there’s no point in picking up a guitar and playing rock and roll
Keith Richards has been quoted recently saying “If you don’t know the blues, then there’s no point in picking up a guitar and playing...
Your Own Blues
You can’t do someone else’s blues. You have to do your own, but you might find yours in theirs, theirs in yours, or have enough of yours...
Whiteboy Blues
I find people are often curious, appropriately, as to why white folk, or any color folk for that matter, perhaps having no real exposure...
British Invasion
As all blues fans know, it is all too ironic that we Americans had to rely (mostly) on our previous caretakers from across the pond to...
Essentials
When I bought my first harmonica and decided to self-teach, I bought a simple little guide to blues harp, and then went to the library...
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker, above, is one of my all-time favorite heroes from the legions of blues pioneers. In my mind his early original work is...
