This 2005 live recording covers a few different styles – but, most importantly, amply demonstrates John Mayer’s ability to seamlessly combine rhythm and lead (and vocals!) in one go.

I’ll be back next month with more essential blues phrases to incorporate into your blues rhythm parts and solos. Thanks for reading! This article first appeared in Guitar World. Subscribe and save.

Eric Gales has a true gift for foregrounding rhythm in his playing, borrowing from elements of funk, jazz, blues and heavy rock.© Steve Jennings/Getty Images ( (Image credit: Future)) ...

There are 21 songs on this two-disc set of new recordings, and by the time it's over, Guy and his guests have visited just about every worn-out blues cliché. That would be tedious listening if he ...

Derived from African American spirituals and work songs of the 1800s, often accompanied by guitar or harmonica, the blues with its pounding beats, pentatonic scales, and blue notes, spread ...

The Acoustic Blues Guitar Method Complete by Lou Manzi is a compilation of the previously released Beginning Acoustic Blues Guitar Method, Intermediate Acoustic Blues Guitar Method, and Mastering ...

Hughes was born in the Third Ward on Sept. 29, 1937, and grew up among the rich blues talent in the area, including Copeland, Collins, Lightnin' Hopkins and Johnny "Guitar" Watson.

For a few years in the 1960s and 1970s, one of the music world’s most extraordinary showmen was a Georgia-born rhythm-and-blues singer named Wayne Cochran.

Learn about popular music styles and revise Understanding Music for National 5 Music. BBC Bitesize Scotland revision for SQA National 5 Music.