Here we look at Jimi's more up-tempo style, rather than the more familiar slow blues he loved to play live. Hendrix was a blues natural, but his blues playing was often very spacey; he would push and ...

Tristram Fane Saunders has been writing for The Telegraph since 2015, mostly covering literature, radio and comedy. He was a Senior Commissioning Editor for The Telegraph until 2023, and he now edits ...

Beloved blues musician John Hammond has died at the age of 83. Over the course of his career, Hammond made a lasting impact on the genre of blues music and worked with some of the greats. Despite his ...

One of the great "Guitar Gods" of the 1960s, Jimi Hendrix was almost as famous for his ultrahip dress sense as he was for his ability to lay down some of the hottest licks in rock history. A symbol of ...

ZZ Top have recorded some great blues songs over the years – none of them better than the one on which Billy Gibbons played a Stratocaster gifted to him by the most revered guitarist of them all. It ...

When Jon Landau weighed in on the debut Jimi Hendrix album in Rolling Stone, he couldn’t praise “Red House” highly enough. Apart from some glowing words for “Hey Joe” and “The Wind Cries Mary,” Landau ...

The only surviving member of both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the Band of Gypsys, Billy Cox is a genuine rock treasure -- and although he turned 70 in October, the bassist is staying just as busy ...

The guitar legend’s response changed everything for the future ZZ Top leader ...

DURING A FRONTLINE CAREER THAT LASTED LITTLE OVER THREE YEARS, Jimi Hendrix had an extraordinary and lasting impact. His music fast-tracked pop into rock, while his image, akin to a counterculture Che ...

Described by blues-rock titan and mentor Buddy Guy as “the next explosion of the blues,” 25-year-old Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has wowed fans and critics alike with his incendiary guitar playing, ...

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