BB King
 has been playing guitar blues for over 60 years and is one of the standards that people use when they talk about guitar blues players. He has recorded with such great bands as U2 and is best known for his trademark hollow body electric guitar he calls Lucille. He was originally called the Beale Street Blues Boy but before his first record came out the record company shortened it to BB and used his real last name of King to create the name BB King. In over 60 years BB King has played his smooth style of blues all over the world.

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, and unaccompanied. The form of the songs were loose, and were rarely, if ever, played the same way twice.

To really understand the phenomenon of white music artists singing R&B
, you should begin with an examination of the motivation and purpose behind the establishment of black music divisions at record companies in the 60s. While the success of Motown as a black owned operation has been well-documented and highly publicized, many of the competing record labels of that time lacked the personnel to adequately exploit the abundance of musically talented black teens.

A lot of the old time players will tell you that there is no such thing as a blues guitar lesson and that you have to learn it all on your own from the pits of your soul. That is a little extreme and although playing blues guitar
 is a lot about feel there are some techniques you can learn at a blues guitar lesson that will make you a better player and help you to get your message out to people when you try and play.

The Blues as an oral tradition can be traced back to the mid 1800s, and finds its roots from Europe and Africa. However, the Blues
 as we know it today is purely an American style of music. It first began to be popularized in the early 1900s, with guys like WC Handy writing songs such as “Memphis Blues” & “St. Louis Blues.”

There is a vast amount of room for innovation and improvisation for those who want to learn how to play blues guitar. And, with so many wonderfully talented budding guitar enthusiasts who aspire to play the blues, hopefully, that vast room will soon fill up with the next T-Bone Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton and B.B. King. Playing the blues provides the guitarist with an immense sense of freedom, motivation and a great deal more. Blues guitar is one of the purist forms of guitar playing, and it is with little wonder why the aspiring musician would want to learn how to play the blues guitar. 

Here is a collection of videos show casing famous guitarists. This collection is ruled by my own preferences to be honest, but some of the material here is absolutely awesome. And more will be added to this collection on a regular basis!

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