You don’t have to spend a lot of money to get your hands around an excellent electric guitar for playing The Blues. Here’s the first electric I bought — The Deluxe Nashville Power Tele — eagerly acquired after a couple of decades away from my Martin acoustic. I have the Honey Blonde version seen below on the left and I do love it so.
If you’re a fan of The Blues, there are two books that must be found on your bookshelf. The first is Tom Wheeler’s excellent book — “The Soul of Tone” — that celebrates 60 years of Fender Amps.
There are guitars — and then there are GUITARS! — and while I haven’t written about it much yet, I share with you today that my current favorite guitar for playing the Blues is my Eric Clapton “Blackie” Signature Stratocaster made by the Fender Custom Shop. I don’t have the $24,000.00USD Guitar Center Blackie tribute guitar — I just have a regular black “Blackie.” Oh, and yes, I too, made the switch from Ernie Ball Slinkys to D’Addario EXL110’s… just like Eric did.
Continue reading → The Eric Clapton Signature Stratocaster Review
If you play the guitar, you gotta love Redd Volkaert and his mastery of the Fender Telecaster. Redd wants to teach you how to play Country Blues in his fantastic and warm and funny DVD, “TeleTwang.”
Continue reading → The Amazing Redd Volkaert and His TeleTwang
If you play the guitar, you know the hunt for the perfect strap can be a lifelong longing. I’m happy to report the discovery of Planet Waves Locking straps for your guitar. You don’t have to replace anything on your guitar to use the strap. The Planet Waves locking system is safe for your guitar and once the strap is locked onto your guitar, nothing is going anywhere.
We expressed our love for guitarist Jim Campilongo in our — Jim Campilongo Goes Orange — review and Jim has mentioned our review, but not linked back to us, from his MySpace:
This BolesBlues.com blog was founded on the notion to better centralize our articles on music, reviews and thoughts and contemplations on melody. Here is how we came to land here.
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