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When Joanne Shaw Taylor was discovered at 15 by an ’80s music legend – and the biggest piece of advice he gave her
By Janelle Borg published
The blues ace looks back on how her career all started because of a fundraiser gig

How surviving cancer inspired Ana Popovic to take blues guitar to the dancefloor
By Andrew Daly published
Dance to the Rhythm is Ana Popovic once more torching convention and presenting a take on the blues that's true to herself and animated by an energy and life she could hardly contain

Eric Gales on his all-star blues tribute to his brother, the man who started him on guitar
By Amit Sharma published
With a stirring tribute to his older brother Manuel, who performed as Little Jimmy King, the master southpaw returns with one of the finest albums of his career

Eric Gales joins Stephen Carpenter, Devin Townsend and Sophie Lloyd in the Kiesel artist ranks – is a signature guitar in the works?
By Phil Weller published
The blues maestro previously worked with Magneto Guitars, but his surprise move to Kiesel could lead to a new signature

David Gilmour is a master of melodic bluesy phrasing – here are 3 minor blues approaches you can expand your soloing vocabulary
By Richard Barrett published
Whether you call these solo ideas minor blues or embellished pentatonic/blues scale, the effect is the same, freeing you up from established patterns to hold your audience's attention

Samantha Fish on the magic of 335s, “best” players – and why the North Hill Country Delta blues is a bottomless well of inspiration
By Damon Orion published
With her latest studio release, Paper Doll, the Kansas City blues rocker bottles the energy of life on the road and goes in search of hooks, hooks, hooks

Buddy Guy on showmanship, Strats – and why he has unfinished business with the blues
By Andrew Daly published
Is Buddy Guy our greatest living blues guitarist? As his 10th decade approaches, we meet the master for a frank talk about passing the torch, the importance of a sip of cognac and his advice for Hendrix

Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram just landed his second signature Telecaster – but he wasn’t convinced by the Fender classic at first
By Phil Weller published
The weight of its reputation persuaded Kingfish to give the classic single-cut a second chance

Power-up your blues with a turnaround trick that was a specialty of the great Freddie King
By Sue Foley published
This masterclass in turnarounds explores different ways to approach an essential blues technique, so of course it finishes up with a look at how the master of turnarounds did it back in the day
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