Eric Bibb: The Acoustic Blues Troubadour Who Chose the World Bob Dylan looked at the eleven-year-old kid holding a guitar and offered advice that would echo across five decades of music. “Keep it simple,” Dylan told young Eric Bibb in the early 1960s. “Forget all that fancy stuff.” The Bibb family ran in circles where […]
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Young Blues Guitar Stars: 10 Rising Players You Need to Hear In January 2023, a twenty-year-old guitarist from Houston named Mathias Lattin walked onto the International Blues Challenge stage in Memphis and played like he had been doing it for decades. He won. Not just the competition — he also took home Best Guitarist honors,
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Piedmont Blues: Discover the Real Magic of It The guitar rang out across the front porch in a way that sounded nothing like the Delta. Moreover, instead of the raw, driving intensity of Mississippi, this was something lighter., it was more intricate. Moreover, the fingerpicking danced across the strings. Furthermore, it created patterns that sounded
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Eric Clapton: The British Guitarist Who Carried Blues Across the Atlantic In the spring of 1966, a 21-year-old guitarist walked into Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London, plugged a 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard into a Marshall combo amp, and turned the volume all the way up. The engineer asked him to turn down. He
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Gary Clark Jr: Austin’s Four-Time Grammy-Winning Blues Revolutionary In 2017, a neighbor walked up to Gary Clark Jr outside his fifty-acre ranch in Kyle, Texas, and asked how a Black man could own property like that. Clark’s four-year-old son stood beside him. The encounter lit a fuse. Two years later, he channeled that rage into
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