Here's all you need to know about Albert King: When he played with Stevie Ray Vaughan on the television series "In Session," Vaughan spent most of his time watching King. The guitar great will be ...

First things first. Left-handed blues guitarist Albert King played a right-handed, right-strung guitar turned upside down. Left-handed blues guitarist Jimi Hendrix played a right-handed, left-strung ...

Journey's Neal Schon may be best known for timeless classics such as Don't Stop Believin’, Stone in Love, and Still They Ride. However, the genre-hopping guitarist cut his teeth playing the blues, ...

There's little need for explanation when it comes to Albert King. Though he never had a profile near that of B.B., the "other" King, he has been incredibly influential on generations of blues ...

When Albert King and the trio that accompanies him in live performance take the stage they invariably start things off with an instrumental. Usually it’s a slow shuffle, nice and relaxed in tempo, and ...

In the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth parts of this 1997 “lost tapes” interview series, the late bassist Jack Bruce discussed his Scottish roots, band mates Eric ...

B.B. King is arguably the most influential bluesman of all time, and it's difficult to measure the enormity of his impact on other musicians. He quite simply transformed the basic vocabulary of blues ...

It’s this big, heavy groove, and he’s just testifying. I remember hearing that in my headphones when I was younger, thinking, “That is the heaviest shit I’ve ever heard in my life.” 2. “Overall ...

Since its vinyl release in 1967, blues aficionados have put Born Under a Bad Sign on a pedestal—many considering it one of the best electric blues albums of all time. While it is a true classic, it’s ...