These famous guitar riffs built up blues rock as a genre during its formative years, and they still inspire guitarists today.

Slash, photographed at his Encino recording studio, is putting on the blues/rock S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Fest at the Greek Theatre. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) When you’ve reached the pinnacle of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musician John Mayall, often referred to the “godfather of the British blues,” whose bands of the late ’60s and early ‘70s featured ...

Blues rock will never die, even if its biggest era has since passed. Countless artists made it big in the 1960s and 1970s with their unique spins on blues rock, and some of them are still making music ...

Muddy Waters got it right with his anthemic song, “The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll.” And few figures ever personified that evolutionary link as clearly as Big Joe Turner, the ...

There’s nothing polite about the way Troy Mercy attacks a guitar. The elusive Americana and blues-schooled songwriter trades ...

The lineup is packed this spring for country, bluegrass, roots-rock, blues and folk performances in Northern Nevada. Check ...

Flat Rock Playhouse will present BOOTS N BLUES March 27–29 at the Leiman Mainstage in Flat Rock, North Carolina. The concert event will feature blues musician Mac Arnold, a former member of the Muddy ...

Eric Johanson returns to Aurora for a Sunday night performance of modern blues-rock. The Louisiana native is back in the States after shows in Spain and Sweden and is bringing his power trio July 14 ...