Every guitarist needs to know their chords – whether you're learning favourite songs or writing your ... essential chords into three areas – beginner guitar chords, folk and blues.

Paul Jones presents a series exploring the blues and featuring records by or about the major artists who moulded post-war blues, starting with Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker.

As big beasts like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple dominated the era, players such as Steve Howe and Brian May transformed the ...

The Dallas-born guitar virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan showed ... and then some thanks to his blistering and bodacious blues-rock songs. Here below, we wanted to explore a trio of those tracks.

Academy of Science teacher Ian Harper ran the summer program, with funding from the Northwestern Mutual Foundation.

spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally performed by a solo singer accompanied by guitar or banjo. The lyrics of a blues song would be full of emotion and would tell ...

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The Bull & Claw’s famous Friday night Sundowners, featuring live music in their beautiful boho garden. Commencing at 6pm, ...

Highly touted recent music by the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Pearl Jam has one thing in common: 33-year-old Grammy-winning ...

I kept the original strings on, figuring a beginner would be unlikely to change them—in part because nylon uke strings last much longer than steel guitar strings. I checked each uke’s ...