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Joe Bonamassa: How To Play A Shuffle

A big part of blues is playing over a “shuffle” groove — a triplet-driven swing-eighths feel with a backbeat (accents on beats 2 and 4) — at various tempos. Let Joe Bonamassa give you a hand!

Joe Bonamassa on the artist who demanded Eric Clapton play “The Thrill Is Gone” — and why only an icon can tackle the B.B. King hit

Joe calls his tribute to King "a labor of love," but fans will have to wait for the album's release to hear it's most ...
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“It delivers the raw clarity, but still hits with the force of an active pickup”: Seymour Duncan teams up with Dino Cazares for signature Machete humbuckers – and the ...

Available for six or seven-string guitars, the Machete is the same high-powered heavy-hitter Cazares uses in his signature ...

Paul Rodgers on playing with Paul Kossoff, Mick Ralphs, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Brian May, Steve Cropper, Slash and Joe Bonamassa

I don't really know the secret of how guitarists create their own unique sounds,” Rodgers tells us, “but I know a good guitar sound when I hear it” ...

Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, has died at age 84

Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and ...

Why Dion DiMucci still matters nearly 70 years into hit-making career

Dion DiMucci, famous for all-time classics such as "Runaround Sue," "The Wanderer" and "Donna the Prima Donna" has a new book ...