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- Jonathan Horsley
- Joe Bonamassa. The world’s most high-profile blues guitarist has spent 2019 packing out pretty much every large, red-plush seated theater he can find in support of last year’s masterly Redemption.
- Eric Clapton. For a player who made his bones in the ‘60s with Cream and Blind Faith, back when the color TV was still novel, Slowhand made a respectable attempt at breaking the internet when he played While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Peter Frampton at this year’s Crossroads Guitar Festival.
- Derek Trucks. Is there a better slide player in the world right now? Trucks is the highest slide specialist in our voters’ list, and perhaps that is because his sensibility is such that he never overpowers the jam, often positioning his Gibson Artist Series Dickey Betts SG somewhere in the uncharted frequencies shared by vocals and guitar, and as an enigmatic counterpoint to his wife Susan Tedeschi’s Strat or Les Paul.
- Buddy Guy. Profiled in the New Yorker as “the last of the bluesmen,” Buddy Guy might be 83 years young but he has more than plenty sap in the tree, and can presently be found, Strat in hand, at venues up and down the length and breadth of the United States.
- Freddie King major motif. This major pentatonic repeating idea is a Freddie King staple. He used a triplet grouping, whereas Beatle George Harrison applied a cool rhythmic displacement idea in 16th notes on Hard Days Night.
- Angus Young-style Minor to major pentatonic. A common trick that blues-rockers use over a dominant chord is to play both the major and minor pentatonic scales from the same key centre (A, in this case).
- Mark Knopfler and Peter Green Minor 7 arpeggio fragment. This lick is an example of how a sterile musical device, such as an arpeggio, can be decorated to great effect.
- Organ licks. Some players such as Danny Gatton, Robben Ford and Stevie Ray Vaughan take influence from organ players like Jimmy Smith, resulting in some very cool double-stop and trilling ideas.
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- Justin Johnson
- Jimmy Reed
- Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram
- Samantha Fish
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd
- John Mayer
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Keb’ Mo’
- Robben Ford
- Eric Gales
- Gary Clark Jr.
Jimmy Reed was one of the first to switch to electric guitar as opposed to many of his contemporaries who were still strumming the acoustic His lazy voice, piercing harmonica solos and unique style of guitar playing didn’t seem like they were particularly suited for mainstream music. But that is far from the truth because his songs have been covere...
The youngest artist on the list, this 22-year-old Mississippi phenom has a sense for feel, phrasing, and vibrato that can make hardcore blues fans sit up and take notice. Having already played with the likes of Buddy Guy and Eric Gales, Kingfish is only getting started on a career that’s bringing the blues back to American mainstream charts. We kno...
Samantha Fish takes the blues’ storytelling power and reinvents it in her style full of octavers, pitch shifters, fuzz, and delay. With the official music video of ‘Faster’ out just last week, you can see how she’s retained her essence while still pushing the boundaries of blues. (Check the song here). When she hit the music scene almost twelve yea...
As a disciple of SRV, KWS shares that unpredictable quality of phrasing, where he will be playing something traditional before flipping the whole thing around and taking it someplace new. I’m not trying to bash old-school blues here, but if you switch a playlist on, after some time, they’ll all begin to sound a lot like each other, causing songs to...
Given his latest release, John Mayer’s playing style goes beyond traditional blues, but the reason his solos stick to your brain is that they’re all derived from blues legends before his time. His songs like Gravity and Slow Dancing In A Burning Room have guitar lines that are as intense as his vocals, both operating in unique spheres because of th...
They say that Rock ‘n’ roll was born in the 1940s between the church and the nightclub within the soul of a queer black woman named Sister Rosetta Tharpe. With a Gibson slung around her neck, she was there before the likes of Elvish, Cash and Little Richard took over. As a young black woman in a heavily male-dominated industry (not unlike this list...
Keb’ Mo’ has the extraordinary ability to make you fall in love with his playing and voice with just a line. A five-time Grammy winner, Keb’ Mo’, or Kevin Moore is a master of crisp, emotive, and clear storytelling. Mo’ effortlessly steps in and out of eras and blends blues with folk, jazz, rock, country, and even pop, creating a unique soundscape ...
With an instrument like guitar, there’s no shortage of musicians who love flaunting their chops with blistering solos. But sometimes, true mastery means restraint and focusing on the spaces in the song and embellishing it with what it needs – no more and no less. If you ascribe to this definition of guitar excellence, then Robben Ford is your man! ...
There’s a reason why Eric Gales was hailed a child prodigy, and you only need to listen to one of his performances to figure out why. The man picked up the instrument at the age of 4, and his older siblings taught him blues guitars in the style of BB King, Jimi Hendrix, and Albert King. The rest, as they say, is blues-rock history. I’d say his soun...
Hailing from Austin, Texas, the bright and young Gary Clark Jr. proudly carries forward the tradition of the authentic blues guitar playing by blending his flawless technical proficiency with emotion and sheer musical honesty – not unlike the likes of Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and BB King. Jimi Hendrix once said that “Blues is easy to play but...
- Fender American Professional Stratocaster Electric Guitar (Best Overall) Estimated Price. $1450. Body. Solid Ash/Alder Body with Double Cutaway. Neck. Maple.
- Epiphone Limited Edition ES-335 PRO Electric Guitar (Best Value) Estimated Price. $500. Body. Semi-Hollow Laminated Maple body with Double Cutaway. Neck. Mahogany.
- Squier Classic Vibe 60s Telecaster Thinline Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar (Budget Pick) Estimated Price. $450. Body. Semi-Hollow Nato Body with Single Cutaway.
- Gibson Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar. Estimated Price. $2500. Body. AA Figured Maple Top on Solid Mahogany Body with Single Cutaway. Neck. Mahogany.
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Oct 20, 2022 · We've done the legwork for you to uncover the very best guitars for blues. Vintage icons, modern classics, wild cards, not to mention a Fender Telecaster that changed the world. We've picked eight killer guitars to suit a wide range of budgets... and each and everyone excels at electric blues.
