Derek Trucks is one of the greatest slide players of all time – here’s how he decides when to use it

All of the highlights reels – understandably – focus on his work with the slide, turning his Artist Series Dickey Betts SG into an auxiliary member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band vocals division.
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Loved by Joni Mitchell and Keith Richards alike, essential to slide players, here’s how you can explore chords in open D

Open tunings are very popular with slide players as they offer the facility of playing triads with one finger (or slide), giving convenient groups of notes with which to build licks and patterns. In ...
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TANGLEWOOD REVIEW: Bonnie Raitt put on a slide guitar clinic and exploded conventional wisdom about growing old

LENOX — One of Bonnie Raitt’s best-known older songs is John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery.” It starts with a line that reflected neither its author nor its singer when it was recorded in 1974 for ...