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The 120 Best Blues Albums: Classic Records You Need To Hear

From Muddy Waters to B.B. King and Koko Taylor to Shemekia Copeland, discover the records that made it onto our list of the best blues albums ever.

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Don Was, Blue Note’s Renaissance Music Man

Don Was is a widely-respected artist, record label boss and hugely in-demand A-list producer.

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Why ‘Threads’ Was Everything We Ever Loved About Sheryl Crow, And More

If ‘Threads’ is Crow's final full-length work, as she has suggested, then it's a remarkable closing statement.

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The Best Guitar Solos: 100 Hair-Raising Moments

The best guitar solos – from driving riffs to technical displays of mastery – make a song complete and more often than not, transcend the track entirely.

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The 36 Best Blues Songs Of All Time

The blues artists talked, the rockers listened. Without the blues there’d be no rock’n’roll, but these influential blues songs were especially pivotal.

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Don Heffington, Lone Justice Co-Founder, Beloved Drummer, Dies At 70

Heffington also worked with Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Lowell George, and countless others.

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‘Nick Of Time’: Bonnie Raitt Beats The Clock To Win Grammy Glory

A new deal with Capitol Records led to the serendipity of a working relationship with producer Don Was, and the best set of songs Bonnie had gathered since her earliest albums.

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The Best Female Guitarists: An Essential Top 25 Countdown

The best female guitarists of all time prove that the guitar isn’t just for phallic fretwork and cock-rock grandstanding.

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‘We Don’t Want To Lose This Stuff’: James Taylor On ‘American Standard’

The beloved singer-songwriter sat down to explain why he wanted to explore vintage American songs of the pre-rock'n'roll era.

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‘Double Fun’: ‘A Different Type Of Focus’ For Robert Palmer

The 1978 album that included 'Every Kinda People' had another A-list of Palmer collaborators.

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The Secret Songwriters Behind The Biggest Hits

You may know every lyric to your favorite songs, but do you know who wrote them?

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Mississippi Fred McDowell – His Ain’t No Delta Blues

Mississippi Fred McDowell was a key figure in Mississippi hill country blues and one of the most dynamic performers of the 60s blues revival.

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Best Bonnie Raitt Songs: 20 Bluesy Classics

Whether it’s an original or a song she has adopted and made her own, Bonnie Raitt's ability to realize a lush soundscape out of words is extraordinary.

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‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’: Bonnie Raitt Gets The Luck Of The Draw

As 'Luck Of The Draw' continued its multi-platinum success in America, Bonnie made the UK singles chart for the first time with its beautiful ballad 'I Can't Make You Love Me.'