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Guitar Player

Sep 01 2020
Magazine

The only magazine committed to the most experienced and serious guitar players. Get Guitar Player digital magazine subscription today for the finest lessons and master classes, interviews with top artists, recording tips, and extensive product reviews.

The Devil and the Blues

Guitar Player • Vol. 54 No. 9 SEPTEMBER 2020

Assorted Love Letters

All the Gear That Matters

How to Contact Us!

Twenty Flight Rocker • Joe Yanuziello’s Atomic Blue Electric One elevates the lowly garage-rock special.

Soul Train • Joe Louis Walker connects with a cast of great guest guitarists for Blues Comin’ On.

Blues Boomer • On Ordinary Madness, blues stalwart Walter Trout reflects on life and aging with heart and humor.

My Career in Five Songs • From his Jimi Hendrix tribute to his latest blues track, here are the cuts that make Robin Trower proud.

Lover’s Leap • Revamped with a Seth Lover humbucker in 1972, the Telecaster Custom won a place in the hearts of Fender devotees.

Blues at 90 MPH • Hollywood Fats took the genre at his own speed.

IN THE BEGINNING • OVER THE NEXT PAGES, WE LOOK AT THE MUSIC THAT LAUNCHED BLUES TO POP ULARITY, AND THE ICONIC BLUES GUITARISTS WHO BIR THED THE ROCK-STAR PERSONA.

LEAD BELLY • The forefather of rock and roll.

ROBERT JOHNSON • Walter Trout explains the impact of the Delta blues king and crossroads legend.

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE • The guitar heroine blazed a trail for Chuck Berry and the first wave of rock and roll.

WILLIE DIXON • The producer, bassist and immensely prolific songwriter was responsible for some of the blues’ — and popular music’s — most enduring hits.

BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON

MUDDY WATERS

HOWLIN’ WOLF • The biggest, baddest voice of the Chicago blues scene, Wolf was a far-reaching inspiration.

SKIP JAMES

MEMPHIS MINNIE • The renegade star of Beale Street became one of the most incendiary guitarists of her day.

SON HOUSE • He was the part-time preacher, ex-convict and bottleneck blues master who influenced generations.

GOING BACK HOME • OVERSHADOWED BY B.B.KING’S GROUNDBREAKING HIT COMPLETELY WELL, HIS FOLLOW-UP, INDIANOLA MIS SISSIPPI SEEDS, IS A FORGOTTEN MASTERPIECE THAT IS DUE ITS TIME IN THE SUN.

THE BLUES-ROCK BOOM • AFTER THE DELTA BLUESERS GAVE US THE ROOTS OF ROCK, NEW GENER ATIONS TOOK THE BLUES AND TURNED THE NA SCENT POPULAR MUSIC SCENE ON ITS HEAD.

CREAM • Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker combined forces and turbocharged the blues.

FLEETWOOD MAC

THE ROLLING STONES

HUMBLE PIE

LED ZEPPELIN • Jimmy Page tells us how his love of the blues fueled the fire for one of rock’s biggest bands

RORY GALLAGHER • Highly regarded by his peers, the Irish guitarist personified the grass-roots musicianship of blues rock.

JOHNNY WINTER • At the blues boom’s peak, he signed one of the music industry’s most lucrative recording contracts and sold out arenas.

GARY MOORE • The perennially underrated guitarist took blues rock to the next level in the ’70s and beyond.

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL • FROM 1950s TEEN IDOL TO LATTER-DAY BLUES MAN, DIOND iMUCCI KEEPS THE MUSIC FLOWING ON HIS NEW STAR-STUDDED ALBUM, BLUES WITH FRIENDS.

OLD BLUES, NEW TRICKS • WHO SAYS THE BLUES IS AN OLD MAN’S GAME? A GE ISN’T A FACTOR, AS THESE ARTISTS REVEAL.

FANTASTIC NEGRITO • The Grammy-winning maverick cheated death and became one of blues’ biggest innovators.

WE ARE FAMILY • LARKIN POE’S LONG, WINDING ROAD FROM CLASSICAL TO BLUEGRASS TO BLUESY SOUTHERN ROCK HAS BEEN PAVED WITH SCREAMING GUITARS, SIBLING HARMONIES AND A TOUCH OF GOTH.

DUST DEVIL • MEET THE...


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The only magazine committed to the most experienced and serious guitar players. Get Guitar Player digital magazine subscription today for the finest lessons and master classes, interviews with top artists, recording tips, and extensive product reviews.

The Devil and the Blues

Guitar Player • Vol. 54 No. 9 SEPTEMBER 2020

Assorted Love Letters

All the Gear That Matters

How to Contact Us!

Twenty Flight Rocker • Joe Yanuziello’s Atomic Blue Electric One elevates the lowly garage-rock special.

Soul Train • Joe Louis Walker connects with a cast of great guest guitarists for Blues Comin’ On.

Blues Boomer • On Ordinary Madness, blues stalwart Walter Trout reflects on life and aging with heart and humor.

My Career in Five Songs • From his Jimi Hendrix tribute to his latest blues track, here are the cuts that make Robin Trower proud.

Lover’s Leap • Revamped with a Seth Lover humbucker in 1972, the Telecaster Custom won a place in the hearts of Fender devotees.

Blues at 90 MPH • Hollywood Fats took the genre at his own speed.

IN THE BEGINNING • OVER THE NEXT PAGES, WE LOOK AT THE MUSIC THAT LAUNCHED BLUES TO POP ULARITY, AND THE ICONIC BLUES GUITARISTS WHO BIR THED THE ROCK-STAR PERSONA.

LEAD BELLY • The forefather of rock and roll.

ROBERT JOHNSON • Walter Trout explains the impact of the Delta blues king and crossroads legend.

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE • The guitar heroine blazed a trail for Chuck Berry and the first wave of rock and roll.

WILLIE DIXON • The producer, bassist and immensely prolific songwriter was responsible for some of the blues’ — and popular music’s — most enduring hits.

BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON

MUDDY WATERS

HOWLIN’ WOLF • The biggest, baddest voice of the Chicago blues scene, Wolf was a far-reaching inspiration.

SKIP JAMES

MEMPHIS MINNIE • The renegade star of Beale Street became one of the most incendiary guitarists of her day.

SON HOUSE • He was the part-time preacher, ex-convict and bottleneck blues master who influenced generations.

GOING BACK HOME • OVERSHADOWED BY B.B.KING’S GROUNDBREAKING HIT COMPLETELY WELL, HIS FOLLOW-UP, INDIANOLA MIS SISSIPPI SEEDS, IS A FORGOTTEN MASTERPIECE THAT IS DUE ITS TIME IN THE SUN.

THE BLUES-ROCK BOOM • AFTER THE DELTA BLUESERS GAVE US THE ROOTS OF ROCK, NEW GENER ATIONS TOOK THE BLUES AND TURNED THE NA SCENT POPULAR MUSIC SCENE ON ITS HEAD.

CREAM • Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker combined forces and turbocharged the blues.

FLEETWOOD MAC

THE ROLLING STONES

HUMBLE PIE

LED ZEPPELIN • Jimmy Page tells us how his love of the blues fueled the fire for one of rock’s biggest bands

RORY GALLAGHER • Highly regarded by his peers, the Irish guitarist personified the grass-roots musicianship of blues rock.

JOHNNY WINTER • At the blues boom’s peak, he signed one of the music industry’s most lucrative recording contracts and sold out arenas.

GARY MOORE • The perennially underrated guitarist took blues rock to the next level in the ’70s and beyond.

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL • FROM 1950s TEEN IDOL TO LATTER-DAY BLUES MAN, DIOND iMUCCI KEEPS THE MUSIC FLOWING ON HIS NEW STAR-STUDDED ALBUM, BLUES WITH FRIENDS.

OLD BLUES, NEW TRICKS • WHO SAYS THE BLUES IS AN OLD MAN’S GAME? A GE ISN’T A FACTOR, AS THESE ARTISTS REVEAL.

FANTASTIC NEGRITO • The Grammy-winning maverick cheated death and became one of blues’ biggest innovators.

WE ARE FAMILY • LARKIN POE’S LONG, WINDING ROAD FROM CLASSICAL TO BLUEGRASS TO BLUESY SOUTHERN ROCK HAS BEEN PAVED WITH SCREAMING GUITARS, SIBLING HARMONIES AND A TOUCH OF GOTH.

DUST DEVIL • MEET THE...


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