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This Week In The Blues: August 9 - August 15, 2026

HEY BLUES FANSHere's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of August 9 - August 15, 2026.Some of the highlights include music inventor and innovator Leo Fender, blues guitarist Roy Gaines, and Walter Horn Jr, known as Mississippi Slim.Keep in mind that there's so much more th‮…

Ep. 169: "They Always Went to Carl's Jr."

It's the 169th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps, the call-in show where amp tech Skip Simmons fields all of your tube amp and life questions. This week, returning guest Steve Soest joins us for a chat about the vintage days of vintage guitar buying; playing alongside Chuck Berry and Dick Da‮…

Gabriel Currie: Rock's Hidden Alchemist

Gabriel Currie has built guitars for Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Jackson Browne, and Marcus King, but this conversation goes way deeper than music. Growing up in East LA's Highland Park amid gang violence, punk rock chaos, and an education system that failed him, Gabrie‮…

Gibson vs Fender - Loud and Clear | 2

It's 1950, and Fender's first solid-body guitar, the Esquire, is the laughingstock of the music industry. To guitar makers used to elegantly made hollow-body guitars, Fender's thin, simple plank of solid wood is a joke. But its bright, powerful sound and lack of feedback make it a hit with guitar ‮…

Gibson vs Fender - Les and Leo | 1

In the 1930s and ’40s the market for electric guitars is growing, but it’s hindered by the instruments’ flawed designs. But a small group of mavericks is rethinking the guitar for the electronic age.One of them, guitarist Les Paul, tries unsuccessfully to convince one of America's oldest guitar co‮…

Episode 5 - Bass Guitar: The Hidden Engine

Drop your attention to the very bottom of a song — that low, round thing you feel in your chest more than you hear. Almost nobody notices it, and it's holding the whole song together. The hidden engine. The bass's unique job: the hinge between rhythm and harmony — root notes define the chords‮…

A Look At The Fender Tone Master '59 Twin-Amp (Joe Bonamassa Edition)

Why would a legendary tone snob with Dumbles and real '59 Tweed Twins put his name on a digital amp? On today's episode of Ask Zac, we take a deep dive into the new Fender Joe Bonamassa Tone Master '59 High-Powered Tweed Twin, and what happened when I took it out on the road.Fender sent over one o‮…

Mysterious Bulges and Family Meetings

Sixteen-year-old Clark joins Mikey and Bonnie in the studio to put his parental knowledge to the test, revealing whether he knows his dad's Michigan past better than his mom's high school record. Then, the crew digs into Amazon's underlying customer data profiling to uncover the eerily specific (a‮…