Chicago blues guitar tone is one of the most influential sounds in modern electric guitar. It's the cranked-amp, slightly-broken-up, vocal-vibrato sound that po...
Delta blues history is the story of how a small handful of musicians, working with cheap guitars in the Mississippi Delta, created a body of music that would ev...
On Episode 2 of the History of Rock, Andy Aledort walks us through the influences that guitar legends, John Lee Hooker and Elmore James had on rock, and the sty...
Introducing the History of Rock with Andy Aledort! On this first episode, Andy talks about two of Rock's founding fathers: Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. These ...
On this 30th, and final Episode of Blues Chronicles, Reverend Robert Jones shares an original song entitled, "The Darkness of Blackness." The song pays homage t...
On Episode 29 of Blues Chronicles, we meet the "King of the Boogie," John Lee Hooker. After the passing of Hooker's father in 1923, Hooker's mother remarried a ...
On Episode 28 of Blues Chronicles, we take a look at the other great king of Chicago blues, Howlin' Wolf. Chester Arthur Burnett said to have adopted his signat...
On this 25th Episode of Blues Chronicles, we learn about the long-time blues guitarist, Brownie McGhee. Born Walter Brown McGhee, this fantastic bluesman made a...
On Episode 24 of Clues Chronicle, we learn about a master storyteller bluesman, Bukka White. After having taken a break from music for a number of years, Bukka ...
On Episode 23 of Blues Chronicles, we learn about a man who was so good he competed with himself for the same gig: Josh White. A much requested singer by music ...
On Episode 22 of Blues Chronicles, we meet one of the greatest Gospel singers of all time, and the "mother of Rock 'n Roll," Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Having becom...
On Episode 21 of Blues Chronicles, we learn about the amazing copyist and musical innovator, Robert Johnson. Rumor had it that if Johnson could hear a song just...