"It just seemed like another really good way to bring people together": How Slash re-electrified the blues for the hard times

Samantha Fish, Slash and Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram (studio portrait).

Slash has fashioned some of the most memorable guitar riffs and solos in modern rock. But few people would have had him down as a born-again bluesman. For his latest project, the Guns N’ Roses star dived deep into a world of music that had its first flowering 60, 70 and even 80 years ago.

“I’m a hard-rock guy at heart,” he explains. “But this kind of blues guitar playing for me has always been the basis for everything.”