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"Music, and blues in particular, can lift you up and transcend your current situation and surroundings." "Redemption is definitely in the fabric of the blues," the Son Volt frontman says; though it's ...

The simple act of lowering the pitch of the sixth string by a single tone from E to D is an easy way of adding weight to the bass end, while simultaneously freeing up your fretting hand to focus on ...

Non-standard open or altered tunings crop up frequently in blues, folk and country music. One reason for this is that they can greatly facilitate slide playing. But another is that unusual chord ...