The first slide guitar recording (and first instrumental blues recording) was made by Sylvester Weaver for Okeh Records (No. 8109) in 1923, the A-side being "Guitar Blues" and the B- side "Guitar Rag.

There are far too many blues innovators to mention them all but listen to Delta pioneers Charley Patton, Son House and Robert Johnson to appreciate the roots of the genre. With a massive 89% discount, ...

Eric Clapton called Sonny Landreth the most underestimated guitarist on the planet and probably the most advanced, lauded for his slide guitar and picking techniques alike. The King of Slydeco has ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- He wears cool-looking hats and plays instruments made out of cigar boxes. Chapel Hill, N.C. slide guitar wizard Justin Johnson also writes and performs what he calls "innovative ...

The practice of applying bottleneck or blade to tender guitar strings is celebrated on this encore installment in Legacy’s Roots N’ Blues series. Twenty pre-war blues tracks illustrate the many ...

Alexander “Bottleneck” Wilson sits in his wheelchair in the Courtland Health Care Center, trying to tune his guitar to the open G tuning that he prefers. On this day the 76-year-old has received some ...