Tinsley Ellis – Labor Of Love Alligator Records | Released January 30, 2026 Four decades into a career built on electric fire and roadhouse sweat, Tinsley Ellis has stripped everything down to the grain. Labor Of Love marks his second all-acoustic album and the first where every song came from his own pen. Following last […]
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Elmore James: The King of the Slide Guitar In August 1951, Elmore James walked into a small recording studio in Jackson, Mississippi, and played a riff that would follow him for the rest of his life. The song was “Dust My Broom,” an electrified reinvention of Robert Johnson‘s acoustic original. James hit the strings with
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Memphis Minnie: The Guitar Queen Who Beat the Boys at Their Own Game In 1933, Big Bill Broonzy walked into a Chicago nightclub for a guitar contest against Memphis Minnie. The prize was a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of gin. Broonzy was Chicago’s reigning blues king, but when Minnie finished playing, the crowd
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