Blues Archives

Mandolin Blues Lick of the Day #11 – 7.19.23

This isn’t so much a lick as one way to back up a blues tune. This is in the key of E

\ Today’s blues mandolin instruction: Howling Wolf! This website provides mandolin blues instruction by Jim Richter, acknowledged expert in blues &

Today’s This lick I learned from SRV’s playing. Originally a Howling Wolf tune, you’ll hear it on “Tell Me” from the Texas

This lick is one that I love to use over the IV chord. I first heard the lick used in the playing

Today we look at Charlie McCoy. This is the head to the Mississippi Blacksnake’s Blue Sky Blues. Blues mandolin licks and tablature

This is a cool approach to backing up a 12 bar blues using a pattern seen fingerpicking guitar. It’s keeping a thumping

This is one of MANY turnarounds in the key of E. Turnarounds are a great way of rethinking double stops—instead of playing

Happy Thursday! This lick is an introduction to a closed pentatonic box shape. Today’s lesson uses an A minor pentatonic blues pattern

Another incredible tune from one of the Mississippi Sheiks configurations, this time under the Jackson Blue Boys. Recorded December 1928 in New

Common blues lick and comparable to licks in G that can be heard in Yank Rachell or Johnny Young. When I hear