In my last column, I introduced an approach to playing through a 12-bar blues shuffle in the key of E with some of my favorite licks to play over the IV (four) chord, A7, and the V (five) chord, B7.

In Foley's final column in the series, she completes her turnarounds masterclass – an essential skill for any blues player ...

The Fender Stratocaster is one of the most famous and widely used electric guitars in the history of the instrument. Originally launched in 1954, it had a revolutionary design with its contoured body, ...

In my previous “Blues You Can Use” columns, I focused on what I consider to be essential rhythm guitar and accompanying single-note patterns that exemplify Chicago-style blues guitar, as heard in the ...

Late Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland‘s 1998 solo debut, 12 Bar Blues, will be reissued in expanded form this spring by Rhino in celebration of its 25th anniversary. First up on April 22 ...

AccuJazz Internet Radio continues its weekly roll-out of creatively programmed jazz channels today with the launch of “Nothin' But the Blues," a streaming channel playing hundreds of jazz versions of ...

A new reissue will provide a deeper look at the late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland‘s first solo album, 12 Bar Blues, with a handful of previously unreleased demos, ...

In my previous columns, I’ve demonstrated a handful of what I consider to be essential “blues approved” licks that work well both as embellishments to rhythm parts or as phrases within a solo. Our ...

Going into more detail about Sabbath returning to their earliest roots, Butler commented, "You’d have to make [the album] varied instead of doing 10 tracks of the same old 12-bar blues though." ...