When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Fender Strat is ideal for SRV-style Texas blues. A Gibson ES-335 will give you BB King or ...

If there was any question of whether the blues was still an active influence on The Black Keys, it was answered definitively on Delta Kream (2021). That’s where guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and ...

Little Willie Littlefield, the blues singer and boogie-woogie pianist who recorded the first version of the rock-and-roll standard “Kansas City” and whose piano work influenced generations of rock and ...

Boogie-woogie is a driving blues piano style that features a rolling, “eight-to-the-bar” rhythm. It’s based on ostinato bass figures in 8/8 time, and mostly uses the 12-bar blues harmonic scheme.

Sometimes, guitar tone hacks come from some unlikely places. For esteemed Ocean City guitarist and blues-rock heavyweight Walter Trout, he’s found that the heavier the tone he dials into his tube amp, ...

Boogie-woogie was a piano style that began sometime in the early 20th century — and, by the 1930s, became a huge pop-music fad. Here, rock historian Ed Ward explains how the genre re-emerged in ...