Category Archives: Great Blues Guitarists

T-Bone Walker – Blues Guitar God

Talking about the “T-Bone Shuffle” in the last post about using guide tones in your blues licks got me to thinking about T-Bone Walker. Before Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Albert King, even B.B King, there was T-Bone Walker. T-Bone Walker was born Aaron Thibeaux Walker on May 28, 1910  in Linden, Texas. [...]

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Blues Power – Albert King Had The Licks!

We all have our favorites, our inspiration to play the blues, and most of us have been inspired in one way or the other by at least one of the Kings: B.B., Freddie and my favorite, Albert. Eric Clapton loved Freddie King, B.B. King may be the “King of the Blues,”  but to me Albert [...]

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Stevie Ray Vaughan Remembered

Certainly one of the most inspirational blues guitarists to ever have picked up a guitar is Stevie Ray Vaughan. A true blues guitar icon, Stevie not only brought the old school blues to some of us younger players, but he managed to leave a mark that forever changed the blues guitar. I just ran across [...]

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