Credit: Paul Natkin/WireImage/Getty Images In my last column, I presented a shuffle rhythm pattern for a standard 12-bar blues in the key of G ... scale (G, Bb, C, D, F) and the G blues scale ...

From the players of old to the guitarists shaping the blues scene, this list serves up a cross section of the genre’s finest solos from across nearly a century of guitar blues ...

In my last column, I presented a shuffle rhythm pattern for a standard 12-bar blues in the key of G, with some inversions ... G minor pentatonic scale (G, Bb, C, D, F) and the G blues scale ...

though Broonzy’s acoustic eight-bar-blues version (the original was 12-bar) became the standard-bearer. Listen to the evolution of “Key To The Highway” on Spotify. The song is about an ...

Its centerpiece was “Working Man,” a variation on the archetypal twelve-bar blues format, which was co-written by the album’s co-producer, Chicago blues maven, Mike Bloomfield. Backed by an ...