There were some really cool blues-style techniques that he learned from some of my stuff,” says Marty Schwartz, whose guitar ...

Malley stumbled across some research that traced the roots of American blues music back to West African Muslim slaves. His discovery led Malley to imagine a musical play that explored the shared ...

They knew that the festival attracts people who love to listen to music, but Hines said they were surprised at how many also jumped at the opportunity to learn how to play some blues tunes themselves.

If you play anything inside of the larger genre of rock music, the chances are it has descended from the blues in some capacity. Whatever era of rock-based guitar music you love, you’ll be able to ...

Of course, the basis of all American music is the blues. So we said, ‘Let’s just get together and play some blues and maybe we’ll get a gig and maybe not.’” The history of Code Blue goes ...