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Blues Guitar For Dummies
Chapter 12: The Birth and Growth of Classic Electric Blues . . . . . . .213
The Rise of the Electric Guitar in Blues ....................................................214
Giving Props to the Earliest Electric Pioneer ...........................................215
Sweet Home Chicago, Seat of the Electric Blues......................................216
Muddy Waters, leader of the pack ...................................................218
Elmore James, slide guitarist extraordinaire ..................................219
Otis Rush: Soulful player with a flair for vibrato............................220
Buddy Guy, the father of blues rock ................................................220
Modern-Day Blues Styles: The Sounds of Texas ......................................222
Four Blues Giants: Three Kings and a Collins...........................................224
Albert King, the upside-down string bender...................................224
B.B. King, the blues’ king of kings ....................................................224
Freddie King, a two-pick man............................................................228
Albert Collins, master of the Telecaster..........................................228
Children of the Post-War Blues Revival.....................................................229
Son Seals, Chicago’s favorite son .....................................................229
Robert Cray, smooth persuader .......................................................230
Bonnie Raitt, stellar lyrical slides artiste ........................................230
Chapter 13: Blues Rock: The Infusion of Ol’ Rock ’n’ Roll . . . . . . . . .233
The Blues Had a Baby, and They Called It Rock ’n’ Roll .........................234
Chuck Berry, blues rock’s first superstar........................................234
Bo Diddley, king of the jungle beat...................................................235
The Brits Invade the Blues..........................................................................236
Clapton and Green, early blues icons..............................................236
Jeff Beck, blues-rock’s mad scientist ...............................................237
Trippin’ the Blues.........................................................................................238
Eric Clapton, the original guitar god................................................238
Jimi Hendrix takes the blues psychedelic.......................................239
Heavy “Blooze”: The Infusion of Hard Rock..............................................241
Jimmy Page, frontrunner of the metal blues...................................241
Leslie West, big man with a big sound.............................................242
Blackmore and beyond, where blues gets scary............................243
Southern Comfort ........................................................................................243
The Allmans, especially brother Duane ..........................................244
Lynyrd Skynyrd...................................................................................245
Hot Barbecue Blues, Texas Style................................................................245
Johnny Winter, Texas blues-rock titan.............................................245
Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top, giving rock some soul ..........................246
Stevie Ray Vaughan, the greatest
modern bluesman of them all .......................................................247
Blues on Steroids .........................................................................................249
Eddie Van Halen takes the blues to ’80s metal ...............................250
Euro-Metal brings virtuosity and precision to the blues ..............250
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