When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Here we look at Jimi's more up-tempo style, rather than the more familiar slow blues he loved to ...

Beloved blues musician John Hammond has died at the age of 83. Over the course of his career, Hammond made a lasting impact on the genre of blues music and worked with some of the greats. Despite his ...

Originally released in 1994, the Jimi Hendrix: Blues album features 11 blues performances recorded by Hendrix between 1966 and 1970 showcasing the guitarist’s mastery of the 12-bar form. The new ...

When Jon Landau weighed in on the debut Jimi Hendrix album in Rolling Stone, he couldn’t praise “Red House” highly enough. Apart from some glowing words for “Hey Joe” and “The Wind Cries Mary,” Landau ...

The complete album won't be out until March 5, but if you're interested in getting a sneak preview at a cut from the new Jimi Hendrix compilation 'People, Hell & Angels,' you're in luck. NME has ...

The debut album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience is many things. As contemporary blues guitarist Samantha Fish said: “Are You Experienced is historically important, innovative, and just such a creative ...

Shortly before his death at age 27 on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix told his friend Colette Harron that he didn’t have much time left. He’d heard it from a fortune teller in Morocco and he believed ...

On what would have been the 65th birthday of music icon Jimi Hendrix, Charles R. Cross, author of Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, cross-examines the lesser-known personality of ...

Described by blues-rock titan and mentor Buddy Guy as “the next explosion of the blues,” 25-year-old Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has wowed fans and critics alike with his incendiary guitar playing, ...

Tristram Fane Saunders has been writing for The Telegraph since 2015, mostly covering literature, radio and comedy. He was a Senior Commissioning Editor for The Telegraph until 2023, and he now edits ...

Although far from a traditional Blues guitarist, even Hendrix’s most psychedelic guitar solos were steeped in the Blues of Howlin’ Wolf and Buddy Guy. Tracing his career from backup musician to the ...

I got rid of some of the few cheesy CDs I had left in my collection from back when I "had no taste in music". Anyway it's REALLY GREAT. Has Jimi covering a bunch of cool old Blues standards. My ...