‘When the Levee Breaks’ – Watch Del Rey perform this Memphis Minnie classic
From the June 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY ADAM PERLMUTTER As seen in both recent and historic weather events, the American South is prone to flood... Read More...
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Video Lesson: Blues Five Ways
From the June 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY MARY FLOWER What’s so great about the key of A major? For blues guitarists, it’s the only key where the three... Read More...
Acoustic Guitar Gospel Blues: The Devil’s in the Details
By Orville Johnson
This groove-heavy gospel-blues song is a lil’ bit of heaven and a lil’ bit of hell. "Don’t Let the Devil Ride” is one of many songs that c... Read More...
Down & Dirty: 10 Next-Gen Resonator Players
From the May 2016 issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine.
By Mark Kemp
Resonators may be the coolest instruments ever made: shiny metal acoustic guitars that look as... Read More...
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How to Play Slide Guitar: Bottleneck Basics
By Steve James
From rudimental country-blues themes to masterpieces by adepts past and present, good slide guitar playing is seldom busy. At its best, it combin... Read More...
A Classic Blues Rhythm Pattern
Excerpted From Acoustic Rock Essentials Blues and rock are two styles that are heavily intertwined, and the rhythm pattern in Example 3 instills more of a ... Read More...
Country Blues Guitar in Open C
One of the great beauties of the minor pentatonic scale is the way the same phrases seem to work over all three chords of a blues progression.