Sam Ash has released a curated comparison of electric guitars for rock and blues players under $500, featuring models from Michael Kelly, ...

The Rolling Stones' Satisfaction is one of the most recognizable riffs in rock history, but it was written by Keith Richards while he was asleep.

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Learn how to boost your blues to pro levels of authenticity with a handful of great chords and a rock-solid rhythm technique ...

These famous guitar riffs built up blues rock as a genre during its formative years, and they still inspire guitarists today.

A crowd-pleasing performer whose natural habitat is the stage, Jonathon “Boogie” Long nonetheless wants to put something for ...

There’s nothing polite about the way Troy Mercy attacks a guitar. The elusive Americana and blues-schooled songwriter trades ...

"An unexpurgated burst of creativity with no nuance or tact or second-guessing. Just raw, hard rock frenzy unleashed" ...

British blues pro Joanne Shaw Taylor recently visited Guitar World HQ in NYC to play and discuss some of her favorite Joanne Shaw Taylor guitar parts, including songs from her latest album, Black & ...

We often underestimate the impact that some of the blues and R&B guitarists who made a name for themselves prior to the 1960s had on the industry as a whole. Well, underestimate no longer; it’s time ...

The blues is more than a genre: it’s the raw, unfiltered voice of human emotion. Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of African American communities in the Deep South, blues music ...