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By Bruce Sylvester OK, it's once time to survey a few recent releases – mostly rootsy, all worthy. With Surrounded by Time (S-Curve), Tom Jones – AKA Sir Tom

(Image credit: Sandy Guy Schoenfeld/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) In this lesson, we're taking a look at the technique and style of 60s blues legends including Howlin’ Wolf, with sideman Hubert Sumlin.  The example ‘solo’ is really a study on how such players would embellish a static chord – sometimes throughout a song. A tune such as Smokestack Lightning doesn’t have a chord progression as such, it just uses the repeated guitar figure as a ‘hook’. In my example piece, there’s repetition in the form of the rhythmic E5 chord, but the fills in between are changed around ...

Repair Shop's Jay Blades has been mentoring Little Mix's Leigh-Anne Pinnock behind the scenes Mirror 2 hrs ago Rose Hill The Repair Shop star Jay Blades has said that he has been mentoring Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock behind the scenes ahead of her new BBC documentary on race. The 51-year-old, who is part of the much-loved furniture restoration programme, appeared on ITV's Lorraine to speak about his life after releasing his autobiography. At school, he had been told that he would "never amount to anything" by his careers adviser - despite that, he has managed to carve...

Austin 360 Guitarist Denny Freeman, an anchor of Austin's blues music community for five decades, has died after a recent cancer diagnosis, several of his close friends confirmed via social media (including songwriter Bill Carter). He was 76. We'll have more about Freeman's life on Monday. In the meantime, here's an American-Statesman feature from 2012. By Brad Buchholz Guitarist Denny Freeman has a new album out — “Diggin’ on Dylan” — an album of instrumental music inspired, in part, by his experience of playing in Bob Dylan’s band between 2005 and 2009. And he’s happy to tell ...