“I was a teenager, so it was just fun. Pretty soon I was getting millions of views – it was crazy”: Laura Cox was a teen guitar sensation. Now she’s throwing the blues-rock rulebook out the window – and finding herself in the process

Laura Cox wears dark shades and plays a Gibson Les Paul Junior.

Laura Cox admits she didn’t have much of a goal in mind when she started posting her classic rock covers on this new thing called YouTube back in 2006.

“I was a teenager, so the whole thing was just fun,” she says. “Pretty soon I was getting millions of views – it was crazy. I think what people liked was that I didn’t take things so seriously. I was just enjoying myself and sharing music I loved.”