Today in 2024 we can listen to over one hundred years of blues. Sylvester Weaver’s unaccompanied instrumental Guitar Blues (1923) may be the earliest example of recorded blues guitar, with Son House, Charlie Patton, Memphis Minnie, Lead Belly, Robert Johnson and many more cutting records in the late 1920s and ’30s.
These greats inspired the post-war Chicago blues explosion, which was subsequently seized upon by “British Blues Invasion” bands, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and more in the mid-’60s. From there, blues-rock was born, and the style has branched out ever since, taking on wider musical influences with every passing year.
Here in our lesson, we’re covering a little bit of everything from early Delta blues, slide guitar, Chicago blues, through to the styles of modern day shred-blues greats like Eric Gales and Joe Bonamassa.
Where relevant, you’ll find scale boxes
