The song Eric Clapton said captured everything about being a musician
“…I felt like I was looking into Heaven”.
Blues
The blues song Slash called one of his favourite riffs ever: “It’s always been”
All the pieces of rock and roll swagger.
The Metallica song that inspired Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’: “The movie’s basically that”
This epic formed the backbone of the structure of ‘Sinners.’
“I been swimming ever since”: The overlooked life of blues legend, Blind Arvella Gray
An essential figure in blues.
“Jimi threatened us both”: How Jimi Hendrix shook the London blues scene
The king is dead. Long live the king.
The guitarist so good they convinced Ian Anderson and Andy Sumners to avoid the blues: ‘Happily, he did not play the flute’
When your influence goes too far.
The surprising favourite song of Jack White: “That was it for me”
Jack White, forever a fan on Son House.
“Creating this synthesis”: How The Rolling Stones became the best American band ever born in Britain
“Of course, American bands did it”.
