BLUE MORRIS

Explore the influence that Buddy Guy had on blues guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan and how the style of blues guitar changed from the 1960s to the 1980s

How was BB King so good at vibrato? First off — listen to him sing. Us guitar players are so focused on the guitar playing. But if you take a moment to really listen to him sing, you'll hear incredibly deep, emotional vibrato. And that sound we hear from his guitar? It's the same vibrato we hear in his voice. That's the best vibrato there could be on the guitar. It's vocal. The 1951 Recording That Changes Everything Let's back up a bit. Imagine it's 1951 in Memphis, Tennessee

So many great guitar players of the past have mentioned this sometimes forgotten legend legend as being an inspiration. B.B. King once said: "When I heard T-Bone Walker play the electric guitar, I had to have one." Chuck Berry said: "All the things people see me do on stage, I got from T-Bone Walker." And Jimi Hendrix watched this man play guitar behind his head one night and thought: I can do that. T-Bone Walker: The Blues Guitar Style Everyone Copied His style of guitar pla

It's not the solo. The most famous part of this song is the intro and you can recognize it from the very first five notes. That space, that tension. As soon as you hear those notes, you already know what's coming. Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin Most people assume what makes this song feel so heavy and swaying is Jimmy Page's licks, Robert Plant's vocals, and John Bonham's drums. And yes, all of that is true. But there's something else at work — something mathemati

It's January 1954 in Chicago. A Mississippi-born guitar player known as Muddy Waters walks into a recording studio with a song written by his bass player, Willie Dixon. What they laid down that day was so raw, so ahead of its time, it didn't just become a hit — it became the foundation for countless blues and rock songs throughout history. That song was I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man. And here's what I think most people miss about it. It's Not Just the Notes — It's the Silence