Eric Clapton's heartfelt song 'The Call' blends blues, rock, and gospel influences to recount themes of redemption and ...

Eric Clapton. His life is a story of breaks, losses, and great music. On March 30, he celebrates his 80th birthday.

There are plenty of revered rock guitarists all across music history, but these are the ones with solos that take guitar to ...

Janiva Magness is not only among the top blues vocalists but also an uncompromising song archeologist. She digs deeper than ...

In Clapton's 60-year career he has survived the double whammy of heroin addiction and alcoholism that often left him ...

The Blue Öyster Cult co-founder looks back on one of the most remarkable stories in U.S. rock history, how the Reaper riff ...

Guitar World's Beatlemaniacs assemble for the deepest of deep dives into the recorded output of a pop-cultural icon and ...

Historically there haven’t been too many jazz harmonica players – the blues collared the market. The name of virtuoso Larry ...

Even when the band did slow things down — on the drawling, stripped-down acoustic-guitar-and-horn blues number Slow Pace of Time and the loping Remember I Was A Dancer — they performed with an ...

Even when the band did slow things down — on the drawling, stripped-down acoustic-guitar-and-horn blues number Slow Pace of Time and the loping Remember I Was A Dancer — they performed with an ...

While Ward focuses on the blues, two of the best songs here are soul covers, as Big John Hamilton’s “I Have No One” is a delight from Ward as the horns pop around her heart-wrenching vocals in front ...

Crowley,” also on Blizzard of Ozz. Rock guitar has many schools of thought. There’s the family tree of blues, from Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, to the British revivalists like Eric Clapton ...