T-Bone Walker and the guitar that gave birth to electric blues

The author of the newly released Electric Blues! T-Bone Walker & TheGuitar That Started It All, Tony Bacon, joins us to ...
The Spokesman-Review

The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can one man keep that tradition alive?

KAILUA, Hawaii – Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings – wearable guitar picks – adorning ...
Jazz

Michael Messer: King Guitar

What makes a blues performance "authentic"? It's a question loaded with an excess of assumptions (about ethnicity, about geographic origins, and about the content of an individual's character), but ...
Jazz

King Guitar

King Guitar / Living in Rhythm / Lone Wolf Blues / Crow Blues / Step Right Up / Drivin' Wheel Blues Part One / Worried Life / Steel Guitar Blues / Rollin' 'N Tumblin' / Right Hand Road / Drivin' Wheel ...