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Slide guitarists are musicians who are well-known for playing guitar with a "slide", a smooth, hard object, held in the fretting hand and placed against the strings to control the pitch. [1] Beginning with guitarists in the American South and Hawaii in early 20th century, [ 2 ] slide guitar styles have developed in a variety of musical settings ...
Erja Lyytinen began playing the guitar when she was 15 years old. Around the same time, she started writing her own songs. In high school, she performed with various projects, one of them being a soul-influenced Brothers & Sisters band, in which she was the singer.
As a female vocalist who is known for her acoustic and electric slide guitar, her music tends to be classified in the folk sections of record stores, despite her strong roots in blues, gospel soul and rock music, and her cover versions of songs by Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder, Jack Bruce, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Winwood and Browning Bryant. McIlwaine ...
This album helped Ellis win Outstanding Guitarist at the 9th annual Los Angeles Music Awards. [ 4 ] Heather Phares of AllMusic gives Push the River 3 stars out of a possible 5 and writes, "Lauren Ellis' debut album Push the River follows the bluesy, heartfelt path of Bonnie Raitt and Melissa Etheridge 's work, but her style is less gritty and ...
In 2010, Cargnelutti won a "Blues Contest" in Pordenone, the same year she was granted a blues award as the 'best new young artist' at the "Oscar del Blues" in Modena, Italy. [2] In 2013, she released her debut album, Love Affairs, billed as Miss Eliana. One of the eleven tracks on the collection, "The Musician", featured Scott Henderson on ...
In 2011, McGregor won "Young Artist of the Year" at the British Blues Awards, [3] and in 2012, she won "Best Female Vocalist" at the British Blues Awards. [4] In 2013 she won two categories, "Guitarist Of The Year" and "Best Female Vocalist", at the British Blues Awards. [5] and again won the "Guitarist Of The Year" category in 2014. [6]
For the record: 3:02 p.m. March 3, 2023: A previous version of David Lindley’s obituary misstated his age.He was 78. David Lindley, a multitalented guitarist who was a fixture in Los Angeles ...
In 2021, Connor released the No. 1 blues album 4801 South Indiana Avenue, [7] [8] via Joe Bonamassa's Keeping the Blues Alive Records. [9] While on tour in 2022, Connor performed live at Kingston Mines, a blues club. [10] [11] In 2023, Connor was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the instrumentalist category, for guitar.