It was Australia’s loss when Leonard Williams brought his family to Britain in 1952 to open a guitar school in London. Leonard Williams emigrated to Australia in the late 1930s where he met Marlaan, a Chinese/Australian, daughter of a well known Melbourne barrister through their mutual love of jazz, and later married her. Len was […]

When a successful session musician discussed the creation of a new group and was told it might go down like a big lead balloon, he didn’t turn back. He went to form what may be the most successful band of all time. Who was it? Read on. Cookham, Clewer, Heston and Epsom are classic examples […]

The Harp guitar is one of the most interesting variations on the standard guitar, it has a very beautiful sound and can be found in both electronic and acoustic versions. I came across a word with an interesting sound the other day, one I hadn’t really heard before. The word was ‘retronym’. A retronym is […]

No, this isn’t the story of Blues music on America’s highest mountain, this is the story of influential blues musician McKinley Morganfield, a virtuoso of slide guitar. Slide guitar is also known a bottleneck guitar because bottlenecks were the first materials used to produce the effect. Normally a guitar player varies the pitch of notes […]

The first, published blues music was ‘Dallas Blues’ in 1912, but the blues predates that by at least Cialis Jelly 20 years and possibly a great deal more. The first recordings of blues music were made for research purposes and have since been lost along with any record of the precise where when and why. […]

According to Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson was ‘the most important blues singer who ever lived’. He is number five in Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, but the man himself is still part legend, part mystery. Almost the only concrete things we have of Robert Johnson Kamagra are his recordings, made […]