Michael Ross

Feb 10, 2025 | guitarplayer.com | Adam Levy |Jimmy Leslie |Art Thompson |Matt Blackett |Barry Cleveland |Michael Ross

Think you’ve heard the most show-stopping, gut-wrenching hardcore blues solos of all time? We don’t think you have until you’ve heard every solo on this list of what we consider the 50 greatest badass blues guitar solos of all time. Let’s face it: Thousands up thousands of great blues solos have been played on the electric guitar, so you can imagine how daunting it was for us to narrow our selection down to just 50.

Mar 4, 2024 | yahoo.com | Michael Ross

This interview was originally published in the June 2008 issue of Guitar Player. Shoppers on Manhattan’s Music Store Row in 1984 often found themselves awestruck by a young man playing on the street. Eddie Van Halen’s solo style had already hipped the masses to tapping techniques, but Stanley Jordan was comping harmonically complex jazz chords with his left hand, while playing lightning-speed, bebop inflected solos with his right.

Mar 4, 2024 | guitarplayer.com | Michael Ross

This interview was originally published in the June 2008 issue of Guitar Player. Shoppers on Manhattan’s Music Store Row in 1984 often found themselves awestruck by a young man playing on the street. Eddie Van Halen’s solo style had already hipped the masses to tapping techniques, but Stanley Jordan was comping harmonically complex jazz chords with his left hand, while playing lightning-speed, bebop inflected solos with his right.