Best of 2024: As cross-cultural high points go in post-war austerity Britain, the American Folk Blues Festival tours that started in 1962 took some beating. Seemingly out of nowhere, iconic blues ...

From Howlin' Wolf to B.B. King and beyond, a litany of talent helped propel blues guitar playing into the spotlight, but Clapton believes that no artist changed the perception of what a guitarist ...

“The Red Rooster” is track nine on disc one. Listen to it first, because it’s the key to this re-issue. On it, Howlin’ Wolf schools Eric Clapton on how to play the blues. As in, “No man, do it this ...

So there’s this guitarist who was the first to use amplifiers, was friends with Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf, and inspired and influenced the likes of the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. Eric ...

The legends of blues are many, but few bluesmen have left behind a larger-than-life legacy to match that of Chester Burnett, more commonly known as Howlin’ Wolf. Wolf was more than just a great blues ...

By the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Clapton was playing guitar in a way the entire music industry envied, but he felt the same about ...

Musical stars are by stereotype usually in their late teens or early twenties. Or at least their management wants you to believe that they are. But one of my biggest musical heroes didn’t start making ...