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Instrumental Blues with Gibson 1959 Les Paul – Gregor Hilden

Performed by Gregor Hilden & Band at the B & W Blues Festival feat. Tommy Schneller on sax. Gregor Hilden plays a original 1959er Gibson Les Paul Std. sunburst. The Amp is a 1982 Kitty Hawk Std. Amp (the one with the wooden cab). The other amps on the stage belongs to the other Bands [...]

Blues Guitar – A Brief History

In the 1920’s and 1930’s, blues guitar players like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Lonnie Johnson were the influential performers of the day. They used a slide which was often made out of a knife blade or the broken or sawed off neck from a bottle. Most of the music was improvised, [...]