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Jake Bugg　

Raised on a steady diet of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and the brothers Gallagher, English singer/songwriter Jake Bugg blends the melodious, working-class swagger of the La’ ..more

Johnny Marr　

Jim Kweskin　

The fun side of folk music was explored by the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. During the five years they were together, they successfully transformed the sounds of pre-World War II rural music into a spring ..more

Shuggie Otis　

Guitarist/singer/songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist Shuggie Otis may not be a household name, but his Strawberry Letter 23 is in the record collections of millions of households. The ..more

John Frusciante　

Guitarist John Frusciante has experienced both colossal highs and death-defying lows in both his musical career and personal life. Born in 1970 and raised in California, Frusciante dropped out o ..more

Jim O'Rourke　

American post-classical composer Jim O’Rourke has been a key component in the increasing overlap of the American and European experimental music avant-garde, working in everything from {\jazz ..more

J.J.Cale　

With his laid-back rootsy style, J.J. Cale is best known for writing After Midnight and Cocaine, songs that Eric Clapton later made into hits. But Cale’s influence wasn’t only throu ..more

John Mayer　

After making his introduction as a sensitive, acoustic-styled songwriter on 2001’s Room for Squares, John Mayer steadily widened his approach over the subsequent years, encompassing everything f ..more

John Hiatt　

John Hiatt’s sales have never quite matched his reputation. Hiatt’s songs were covered successfully by everyone from Bonnie Raitt, Ronnie Milsap, and Dr. Feelgood to Iggy Pop, Thre ..more

John Cougar Mellencamp　

Throughout his career, John Mellencamp has had to fight, whether it was for the right to record under his own name or for respect as an artist. Of course, he never made it easy on himself. Mellen ..more

Jack Johnson　

Before Jack Johnson became the 21st century kingpin of beachside pop/rock, he was a champion surfer on the professional route. The sport was second nature to the Hawaiian native, who began chasing ..more

Joe Satriani　

Along with teaching some of the top rock guitar players of the ’80s and ’90s, Joe Satriani is one of the most technically accomplished and widely respected guitarists to emerge in recent times. Bor ..more

George Harrison　

The youngest Beatle, George Harrison was born Februrary 25, 1943 in Liverpool, England to a working class family. He was given a guitar at the age of 13, and he never let go of it. He developed quickl ..more

James Taylor　

When people use the term singer/songwriter (often modified by the word sensitive) in praise or in criticism, they’re thinking of James Taylor. In the early ’70s, when he appeared with his intro ..more

John Denver　

One of the most popular recording artists of the 1970s, country-folk singer/songwriter John Denver’s gentle, environmentally conscious music established him among the most beloved entertainers o ..more

Johnny Winter　

Blues guitarist Johnny Winter became a major star in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Since that time he’s confirmed his reputation in the blues by working with Muddy Waters and continuing to ..more

Jeff Beck　

While he was as innovative as Jimmy Page, as tasteful as Eric Clapton, and nearly as visionary as Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck never achieved the same commercial success as any of those contemp ..more

John Lennon　

Out of all the Beatles, John Lennon had the most interesting -- and frustrating -- solo career. Lennon was capable of inspired, brutally honest confessional songwriting and melodic songcraft; ..more

John Lee Hooker　

He was beloved worldwide as the king of the endless boogie, a genuine blues superstar whose droning, hypnotic one-chord grooves were at once both ultra-primitive and timeless. But John Lee Hooker ..more

Jimi Hendrix　

In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of u ..more