Browsing: slide guitar

Before the Grammys, Bonnie Raitt found her real education in Cambridge: Club 47, blues obsessives, and Dick Waterman’s artist-first hustle.

Derek Trucks’ switch to open E and fingers-only slide is a masterclass in ditching nostalgia while keeping deep roots in the Allman tradition.

Duane Allman’s voice-like slide, fearless phrasing, and studio hustle reshaped Southern rock, blues, and jam culture long after 1971.

Duane Allman’s tone wasn’t just gear: it was session-honed restraint, vocal phrasing, and amps pushed to the edge. Here’s how it really worked.

From North Mississippi house parties to Europe and the Stones: how Fred McDowell’s raw bottleneck slide became a modern blues blueprint.

How a Texas teen who hated the blues economy cut dozens of pop singles, then surrendered to his true obsession and rewired slide guitar forever.

Bonnie Raitt did not learn blues from YouTube or guitar bros. She stole licks from records, worshipped women like Memphis Minnie and Sippie Wallace, and never asked permission.

In 1968 Johnny Winter scored a $600,000 Columbia deal and rewrote slide guitar; decades later Derek Trucks and Billy Gibbons still raid his bag of tricks.

Bonnie Raitt says you can’t change the noodle, only the sauce. Here is how her unschooled slide guitar and risk taking can reboot your own playing.