Blues Features

Gris-gris or gumbo? Voodoo priest or piano-tickling new orleans R&B guru? Where to start with the music of Dr John…

While not exactly the most prolific of bands, The Who have released some of the most enduring and genuinely influential albums in the history of rock

With Brian Johnson forced to take a step back from AC/DC or face total hearing loss, we ask the experts about the risks for rock fans. Listen up – while you still can…

By the beginning of 1970, The Who were road-hardened and sick of playing Tommy. So they took it back to basics with an album that set the bar for live albums in the 70s

Updated From The Dirt to Get In The Van, Lester Bangs to Stanley Booth: our guide to some of the best books ever written about music…

Video Exclusive: Addict-turned-author Kristin Casey remembers the “tragic fairytale” of her romance with the US rock icon, and her own hard road to redemption

Foghat are in that select group of Brit bands with US hits who never had any success at home. Their defining moment came with this mid-70s single about rock'n'roll mainstay S-E-X.

As the 60s ended, session supremo Jimmy Page put together a band and a plan that would change rock forever - even if it did owe a whole lot to music's past

From the archive: Leslie West talks about dropping acid at the Fillmore, kicking methadone with Johnny Winter and missing Jack Bruce

With its earthy language and frank lyrical approach to sex and violence, not to mention the racist society it was born into, the blues has been censored and vilified since day one

Beth Hart divulges just 10 of the hundreds of records that helped her along the path to stardom

It's been a long time since Robert Plant fronted the biggest band in the world, and now he’s enjoying the fourth decade of a successful solo career

Tommy Bolin had the looks and the talent, but he also had a deadly drug addiction. We look at the tragic career of a doomed guitar great, through band mates, friends, and family

Video Exclusive: Acclaimed Texan bandleader John Blangero on his mission to raise our spirits with this year’s roots masterpiece, Delta Tales

Most recently seen onstage at the Peter Green tribute show earlier this year, here are the eight songs that got British blues legend John Mayall started

Duane Allman is justly lauded for his work with his Brothers, but there’s more to the legacy of the doomed guitarist than At Fillmore East

Black Friday might not be here quite yet, but the bargains have already begun - and there are some amazing deals right now on wireless earphones

Inspired by Welsh countryside, suffused with folk, acoustic and pastoral music, it was the Zeppelin album that confounded critics but truly brokered their legend

Janis Joplin was the extraordinary singer who brought the Blues into the Summer Of Love, whose star shone brightly but briefly

A bluesy cover that's good enough to make Slash jealous and raise the ghost of Gary Moore