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Blues Guitarist Albert King is said to be one of the “Three Kings” of the blues guitar, along side B.B. King and Freddie King. Born in Indianola, Mississippi he was also known as “The Velvet Bulldozer”. He is an absolutely fantastic blues musician who adopted the trait of playing a right handed guitar left handed …
Blues guitarist Robin Trower was born on March 9th of 1945 in Catford, South East London, England. He achieved early success as a guitarist for the rock group Procol Harum in the 1960s. He played for Procol Harum from 1967 until 1972. In 1973 Trower formed and became the band leader for the power trio …
T-Bone Walker was an American Blues Legend. Specializing in Big City blues, he was an excellent singer, songwriter, pianist, blues guitarist and overall amazing musician. He was most famous of course for his blues guitar playing and was one of the most important pioneers of the electric guitar in blues music. He was featured as …
Stevie Ray Vaughan was born on October 3, 1954 in Dallas Texas and is one of the most well known blues guitarist of all time. His inspiration and first major influence as a blues guitarist was his older brother Jimmie Lee Vaughan. As a Christmas present in 1963 Stevie received a toy guitar that was …
John Geils was born on February 20, 1946 and is more popularly known as J. He is a very well known blues guitarist in the United States and has toured all over the world. He is also well-known for some of his recordings done with serious jazz musicians. Since 1982 John has resided in the …
Ok, so for the past year or so, I’ve been posting some cool licks on my blog. I am not saying these are like the shreddingist licks in the universe… However – some of them are pretty hot, and the neat thing about many of these licks is that you actually DONT need super chops …