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Blues

June 2024

  • Janis Joplin on stage in 1968

    ‘She knew where she wanted to go – and just kept going’: the real Janis Joplin, by those closest to her

    She was the epitome of Summer of Love chic – and became overshadowed by tragedy. But as her raw power is celebrated on stage in London, her family and bandmates explain there was far more to the singer than her legend

May 2024

  • Spider John Koerner in 2009.

    Spider John Koerner obituary

    Musician who became a folk scene celebrity with his driving guitar style and love of the blues

April 2024

  • Cher in October 2023 – the singer has finally been acknowledged in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    Cher, Ozzy Osbourne and A Tribe Called Quest among 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

    Cher finally recognised 60 years after her first recordings, while Mary J Blige, Peter Frampton and Dave Matthews Band are among the other inductees
  • Dickey Betts Has Passed Away, New York City, New York, USA<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by MediaPunch/REX/Shutterstock (14440452n) Dickey Betts Has Passed Away. The Allman Brothers in concert circa 1979 Dickey Betts Dickey Betts Has Passed Away, New York City, New York, USA

    Dickey Betts obituary

    Guitarist, singer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band best known for writing their 1973 hit Ramblin’ Man
  • American rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix performs live on stage playing a white Fender Stratocaster

    ‘With a Strat you can rule the world!’ Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything

    How did a radio repair man make an instrument so sublime that it makes giants of music weep with reverence? As the Fender Stratocaster turns 70, we explore its extraordinary life

March 2024

  • The Africatown neighbourhood in Mobile, Alabama.

    Folk album of the month
    Various artists: Africatown, AL: Ancestor Sounds review – music that defies the darkest of pasts

  • ‘I had the biggest head for a while’ … Dan Penn.

    ‘Elvis was as pilled up as me!’ Dan Penn on writing hits for Aretha, Otis, Dolly and more

February 2024

  • Liam Gallagher and John Squire.

    Liam Gallagher John Squire review – their best work since Oasis and the Stone Roses

  • Prince performing at the 2007 Super Bowl.

    ‘When they cleared the wreckage, it was all that survived’: 10 of history’s most irreplaceable guitars

January 2024

  • Neil Slaven wrote the sleeve notes for John Mayall’s 1966 album Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton.

    Other lives
    Neil Slaven obituary

    Other lives: Blues aficionado who founded Blue Horizon Records

November 2023

  • Subtle and supple … Van Morrison performing at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 27 November 2023.

    Van Morrison review – gently shakes, rattles and rolls back the years

  • Val Wilmer: Rural Blues guitarist Guitar Shorty at home, Elm City, North Carolina 1972

    ‘Fela Kuti was always in his pants’: legendary music photographer Val Wilmer’s greatest shoots

  • Jacqui McShee of Pentangle at the concert to celebrate Bert Jansch – 56 years after Pentangle made its debut on the same stage with Jansch in the lineup.

    An 80th Birthday Concert for Bert Jansch review – moving homage to 60s folk guitar hero

  • Troye Sivan, Friday*, Jess Ribeiro and Jamie Marina Lau in a composite image

    Australia's best new music
    Party Dozen, Jamie Marina Lau and Troye: Australia’s best new music for November

September 2023

  • Prisoners at Parchman Farm march to work on cotton fields in December 1939.

    ‘It’s a charged place’: Parchman Farm, the Mississippi prison with a remarkable musical history

  • Gary Wright performing in the 1970s.

    Gary Wright obituary

August 2023

  • Bernie Marsden Of Whitesnake<br>Bernie Marsden, guitarist with heavy rock band Whitesnake, playing the guitar on the set of a video shoot at Shepperton Studios, outside London, England, Great Britain, in 1978. (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images)

    Bernie Marsden obituary

  • Undated photograph of Mack McCormick, left, with Spider Kilpatrick.

    Folk album of the month
    Playing for the Man at the Door review – vital snapshot of mid-century African American music

July 2023

  • Chris Strachwitz is seen at his Down Home Records store in El Cerrito, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. The founder of the popular local music store and Arhoolie Records is profiled in an upcoming film, This Ain't No Mouse Music!, set to premiere on Sept. 19. (Photo By Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

    Letter: Chris Strachwitz obituary

    Garth Cartwright writes: Chris Strachwitz’s greatest passion lay in amassing the biggest collection of Mexican records

June 2023

  • Groundhogs Live<br>COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - 1st JANUARY: Tony McPhee from The Groundhogs performs live on stage in Copenhagen, Denmark circa 1973. (Photo by Jorgen Angel/Redferns)

    Tony McPhee obituary

    Influential British blues guitarist and singer with the rock band the Groundhogs
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