In his 89-and-counting years on this earth, legendary bluesman Buddy Guy has seen some things. Maybe not actual vampires, like the ones his character encounters in Ryan Coogler’s Oscar front-runner ...

ZZ Top have recorded some great blues songs over the years – none of them better than the one on which Billy Gibbons played a Stratocaster gifted to him by the most revered guitarist of them all. It ...

Although far from a traditional Blues guitarist, even Hendrix’s most psychedelic guitar solos were steeped in the Blues of Howlin’ Wolf and Buddy Guy. Tracing his career from backup musician to the ...

In an exclusive interview with American Songwriter, former Jimi Hendrix bassist Billy Cox recalled his first meeting with the ...

Jimi Hendrix was a guitar-playing revelation and blew the minds of those who heard him on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1960s. However, despite admiring what the new kid on the block could do ...

Fleetwood Mac fans, get fired up. Iconic drummer Mick Fleetwood has teamed up with distinguished ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro to record a blues album. The “Blues Experience” will drop on Oct. 18 ...

When Jimi Hendrix visited Maui in 1970 to play a concert in Olinda and take part in the “Rainbow Bridge” movie, he walked by the ocean one day with his friend and bandmate Billy Cox. “As we walked ...

Guy bursts into good-natured laughter, but he’s actually not kidding. He is part of the foundation of American blues, old enough to have played with Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, B.B. King, Little Walter ...