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Blues Guitarists Learning how to play and improvise great blues riffs and licks is not as easy as it might seem to a novice but the one good thing is that focused learning and practicing with a great blues backing track will help a lot in understanding blues chords and progression.

U2 singer, Bono, told Rolling Stone magazine that he considers The Edge as influential of a rock guitarist as Jimmy Page or Pete Townshend. “Edge’s genuine genius developing on the blank and bleached photographic paper….

Enjoy the legendary blues guitarist Buddy Guy performing a solo version of the title track of the upcoming album 'Skin Deep', due out July 22nd via Silvertone/Zomba Records : The album, as previously reported features an all star guest list including Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks,Susan Tedeschi and

John Mayer - live in concert 2008 Someone told John Mayer that he’s “the guy who reinvented the blues.” But he humbly deflected the compliment, insisting that if anyone gets credit for reinventing the blues it would be his listeners (presumably by helping him figure out what we all want to hear)… The point?

The AP is reporting that guitar legend Bo Diddley has passed at the age of 79. He had suffered a heart attack and a stroke in recent months and his health had never quite recovered. Diddley is one of the Founding Fathers of guitar rock music.

Long before there were air guitarists, there was the real thing: Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Buddy Guy, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Guitar Slim, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Peter Green, Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, and of course, Brian May.