Browsing: british blues

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards weren’t fated soulmates – they were local kids with rare R&B records and big nerves. Here’s what really lit the fuse.

Mayall led like a jazz bandleader, wrote blues like a diarist, and built the Bluesbreakers as a talent engine that reshaped British blues.

Before hashtags, fans spray-painted ‘Clapton Is God’ on Underground walls. Here’s how the slogan spread and why his blues tone felt divine.

How Hendrix’s London years were shaped by nights spent listening to John Mayall, Alexis Korner and Rahsaan Roland Kirk in tiny clubs like Ronnie Scott’s.

How a quiet East End guitarist walked into John Mayall’s studio, cut A Hard Road in five days and, for many ears, out-bluesed Eric Clapton.