At an age when most girls listen to Taylor Swift on repeat, she is immersing herself in old blues songs from America’s Deep South. Many of the original singers had poverty-stricken lives but ...

Typically, blues artists write out of their own experience ... the blacks would just pitch in after the flood to restore the old order, and give volunteer labor so they could go back to being ...

In this lesson, I’d like to discuss playing over what’s known as a I - VI - II - V (“one-six-two-five”) chord progression, which is common in a variety of musical styles, from country to ...