Leadership isn’t just about control—it’s about rhythm, chemistry, and knowing when to take the solo. Blues rock bands can gove us some good ideas.

These classic rock hits are inescapable, but the bands who made them have slipped under the radar. This is where they went ...

When John Lee Hooker walked into Russian Hill Recording Studios in 1991, the blues world trembled a little — and rightly so. Fresh off his triumphant late-’80s ...

Recorded for 1965’s ‘Help!’ album, “If You’ve Got Trouble” was the first song the group wrote for drummer Ringo Starr. It was ...

On 'Long Cold Winter', Tom Keifer leaned further into his blues roots, and hair metal band Cinderella made their best album.

A bravura medley of cinema genres that are typically kept apart, it is also a riff on the musical sort. The film is a homage to the Delta blues ... brings together the best of our leaders ...

before an unholy scream heralds the rolling blues riff. 8 LA Woman (Alternate Version) Another alternate version from their last (and arguably greatest) album, this is the title track and Side One ...

Ray “StingRay” DelPriore, one of the very best blues guitar players you could find ... “Many knew him as StingRay for his stinging guitar riffs and sometimes prickly attitude.

Also particularly cool is the ominous-sounding descending blues-scale-based guitar riff that comes crashing ... of the song features some of Page’s best slide guitar work (performed in open ...

but maybe it is Hotel California by the Eagles and the greatest end to a song ever. what a riff at the end. Hard to argue with Guns'n'Roses at number one for their riff, but for me Gary Moore in Still ...

Needless to say, all of the best (and busiest ... But they’re all fairly blues guitar influenced; syncopated rock-blues riffs, 12/8 gospel, swing-shuffle, country-rock and walking bass.

While we’re at it, sign up for our newsletter to get the best new indie music delivered ... like a painter uses colors. How about a blues riff that plays over some Sonic Youth-esque art-rock?