A rite of passage for all aspiring blues guitar players occurs when they first move beyond their primary influences and discover the guitarists that influenced ...
“I’ve always been very intense about anything I wanted to do. I think that’s part of my character, being intense about whatever it is I want to get into, whethe...
With Herculean chops, a thunderous sound and Texas hurricane-sized soul, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan turned the world on its ear with his blistering blues guita...
Last year, on July 16, 2014, the world lost one of the true shining stars of the guitar, legendary blues/rock guitar great Johnny Winter. Back in the winter of ...
One of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists that ever lived is the incomparable Albert King (April 25, 1923 – December 2, 1992), known for his inc...
Legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck is many things: an iconoclast, innovator, trailblazer, pioneer, musical genius, one-of-a-kind daring adventurer, a challen...
ANDY ALEDORT has performed all across the globe with legendary musicians like Buddy Guy, Dickey Betts, the Allman Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble, Edgar Winter, Paul Rodgers, and Jimi Hendrix’s original band mates Mitch Mitchell, Buddy Miles and Billy Cox. Additionally, for over 30 years Aledort has serves as editor for the top guitar magazines such as GUITAR WORLD and GUITAR FOR THE PRACTICING MUSICIAN. His work as a journalist, instructional columnist and music transcriber is unsurpassed. He has authored over 200 books of guitar transcriptions as well as a series of guitar-related instructional books and DVDs, all of which are distributed worldwide by the leading music publishers Hal Leonard Corp., Warner Brothers Publishing and Cherry Lane Music.
