Arthur Smith, a trailblazing guitarist and banjoist who wrote and recorded "Guitar Boogie" and "Dueling Banjos," the latter heard in the acclaimed movie "Deliverance," and influenced the Beatles, ...

Boogie-woogie was a piano style that began sometime in the early 20th century — and, by the 1930s, became a huge pop-music fad. Here, rock historian Ed Ward explains how the genre re-emerged in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Arthur Smith, a trailblazing guitarist and banjoist who wrote and recorded “Guitar Boogie” and “Dueling Banjos,” the latter heard in the ...

Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler has revealed he played "shockingly bad boogie-woogie" when he was a child and that he got his guitar-playing style from strumming tennis rackets with his sister.

You’ve probably heard of boogie woogie. Its distinctive bass riffs pop up in Lead Belly’s guitar playing, Elvis Presley’s version of Otis Blackwell’s “All ...

From Seattle to Paris Wendy spreads the gospel of Chicagobased blues piano and boogie woogie. She’s well steeped inthe stylings of Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim andAlbert Ammons - the ...

Sue Palmer became a San Diego favorite in the 1980s and 1990s as a key member of the bands Tobacco Road and the world-touring Candye Kane & The Swingin’ Armadillos. But when this award-winning pianist ...

Arthur Smith, a trail-blazing guitarist and banjoist who wrote and recorded “Guitar Boogie” and “Duelin’ Banjos,” the latter heard in the acclaimed movie “Deliverance,” and influenced the Beatles, ...